The Old Hall

WACKERFIELD WACKERFIELD NZ 12 SE 10/220 No. 1 (The Old Hall)

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House, at one time 2 houses. Late C17. Limewashed rubble with rubble plinth and painted ashlar dressings: roof pantiled with 2 rows of stone flags at eaves, stone gable coping and stone chimneys. Hearth passage plan with right rear stair wing. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the third wider. Renewed door in architrave with frieze and cornice in second bay; flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes of late C19 type. Roof has cyma reversa moulded kneelers, coping ends removed; 2 banded ridge chimneys flanking door. Rear gabled stair wing has roof in similar style; pent porch addition in angle with house. Original rear door opposite front door has tongue-stopped chamfered surround, now within rear porch.

Interior: several boarded 2-panel doors and ledged boarded doors; stone fire arch in third bay ground floor room obscured by C20 boarding; open-well newel stair has flat-topped handrail, with grip mould on outer edge, on splat balusters and moulded close string, with low pyramidal caps and pendants to some newels. Broad-chamfered beam in third bay, underdrawn and boxed in other bays.

Listing NGR: NZ1501022418