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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600729

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets