Description

SE13NW BAILDON GLEN ROAD SE131390 (north side)

6/10 Bracken Hall Farmhouse and attached barn

II

House and attached barn. Late C17 or early C18 house with remains of earlier timber framing; barn, mid C18. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. House: 2 storeys. Originally 2-cell plan with baffle-entry, now single-cell the 2nd cell partly demolished and altered to form garages. 2 bays of windows with double-chamfered surrounds to each floor, all lacking mullions but formerly of 3 lights (fire-window) and 5 lights, with 2 of 3 lights over. Doorway to right has monolithic jambs and semicircular-arched lintel with sunken spandrels, keystone and impost blocks. Gable stacks with cyma-moulded cornices. Right-hand return wall has remains of timber-frame with exposed tie-beam and post.

Interior: scarf-jointed spine beams indicating the former existence of a bressumer which when the large segmental-arched fireplace at the opposite end was inserted had a panelled wall (now gone) forming a division wall creating a small room lit by the former fire-window. This wall is recorded as having the inscription "I M1701"(La Page,p58). D I B Barn, at right angles to house, has single aisle to left of tall cart-entry with monolithic lintel and double tie-stone jambs.

Interior: 3 bays with king-post trusses. RCHM (England) report. J. La Page, The Story of Baildan, (1951).

Listing NGR: SE1316139040

External Links

• Wikidata Q26600729

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