Description

GREAT BEALINGS SECKFORD HALL ROAD TM 24 NE (South Side) 5/76 Barn at Seckford Hall 16/3/66 and Spur Wall G.V. II Barn and spur wall. C16 or C17. Red English bond brick with plain tiled roof. Open plan barn of 6 bays. Yard front: projecting deep plinth to lower wall. Outshut of C19 date at right with lean-to roof and gabled projecting cattleshed extending at far left. Between these at right are the cambered headed doorways of C19 date, now blocked and having horizontal C20 windows inserted. Cross window between these, all set in what appears to be renewed walling. To left of this is earlier walling and above the plinth are a row of rectangular breathers, now blocked. To left again is a double-door-opening extending the full height of the walling and with a wooden lintel immediately below the wall plate. The right hand gable end has a double-door with cambered head of Cl9 date at left. Above this is a blocked 4-light mullioned casement and to the gable are three bands of chevron decoration in fired headers. To the road front gable end is a projecting plinth, walling with a lattice pattern of fired headers containing diamonds. Blocked opening at ground floor centre. C20 metal window at ground floor level. Two-light window with chamfered surround to the gable. The forecourt front is masked by Cl9 lean-to outshuts but inside these the walling has a projecting plinth and blocked rectangular breathers.

Interior: 6 bays with 6 subsidiary bays. The major trusses having tie beams, collar beams and wind bracing, the subsidiary trusses having no tie beams and no wind bracing, save to the far northern end. Extending from the north eastern corner of the barn is a spur wall that terminates in a square gate pier with stepped cap and globe-light finial. The walling has, to its road side a lattice pattern of fired headers and a cogged band below the parapet which is of saddle-back shape. This walling continues at the other side of the gateway as the walls of enclosed garden in Martlesham C.P. and forms part of the northern wall of the western garden.

Listing NGR: TM2527248422

External Links

• Wikidata Q26657662

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