Description

HAWKHURST HIGH STREET
TQ 7430-7530 (north side)

16/345 Great Pix Hall
GV II
House. C15 or earlier, altered and extended mid to late C16, refenestrated mid
C19. Timber framed and tile hung, with some exposed red brick and sandstone
base. Plain tiled roofs. Hall house with added rear wing. Two storeyed main
range with roof hipped to left with large projecting and offset stack in irregular bond brickwork to end left with rendered flues, and rendered and moulded stack cluster at end right. Three large casements on first floor and 2 reaching to ground level on ground floor, with casement to centre, and door of 6 raised and fielded panels to centre right with moulded surround and flat hood on paired modillions. Left return: 2 storyes, stack to centre left, with 3 wooden casements each floor, boarded and glazed doors and outshot. Present main entry by boarded door in catslide rear of this wing. Interior: front range with soot
blackened roof with inserted clasped purlins. The first floor joists are double-
wave moulded, reset at different heights with the main beams, some used as wall
plates, others reset elsewhere. Reset four centred arched doorway. End right
stack set within double-framed bay, with moulded inglenook bressummer, the whole
indicating much alteration C16 and a little later. Rear wing with jowled Queen-
post roof with wind bracing and with stop-chamfered beams throughout. Inglenook
with short post to spine beam bearing carved shield. Lozenge-set mullioned
windows within house and, in the re-entrant angle of the 2 wings on the first
floor, a C16 moulded oriel, the corner pieces and sidelights with moulded mullions and transoms survive, the main window replaced C19.

Listing NGR: TQ7482130685

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623023

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)