Description

LONG ITCHINGTON SP4065 9/26 White Hall Farmhouse 07/01/52 (Formerly listed as White Hall)

- II*

Farmhouse. Cl5/early C16 with C19 additions. Timber framed with rendered infill and brick in Flemish bond. Plain-tile roof with brick end and lateral stacks. Probably originally a hall-house with solar. 2-storey, 3-window range. C15 range is truncated to right. Close-studded to centre and C19 brick encased to right, with C19 three-light casements. C15 doorway to centre has moulded timber surround and pointed arch with foliage carving within spandrels. C19 ribbed double doors. In close studding above door a C15 timber window of 2 ogee-headed lights and carved mouchette tracery. Further similar C15 two-light window now re-used in C19 porch to right gable end. C15/C16 timber-framed chamber block with close-studded first floor to left, extending to front and rear. Front now encased in C18 brick, dated 17? in stone panel in gable end. Heavy jettied close-studded gable to rear. C19 and C20 casements. C19 brick 2-window range in gable of earlier building to rear has sashes to ground and first floors. C19 door in C19 porch to right gable end. Interior: C16 spine beams in C16 range, with recently subdivided first floor above, and sub-divided ground floor. Curved windbraces visible in top rooms. In ground floor room of C15 range heavily-moulded posts rise from ground and continue into roof trusses. C15 roof now in first floor. 2 trusses remaining, with windbraces springing into now truncated wall. Each truss has a moulded cambered tie-beam with elaborately carved bosses, that to east foliage, that to west an angel holding a book. Cambered collars supported on arcades of four depressed arches. Collars support carved struts. Truss to west has depressed-arch openings to either side, probably leading to gallery with C15 window. Possible remains of a screens passage below west truss. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.343; entry refers to above building, but wrongly ascribes description to Manor Farmhouse, south of the Church of Holy Trinity).

Listing NGR: SP4049865374

External Links

• Wikidata Q17551730

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