Hack House

SJ 64 NW 6/28 12 January 1967

BADDINGTON C.P. FRENCH LANE Hack House

II* GV

Farmhouse, early C17 with later additions. Brick nogged timber frame with slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Small framing with angle braces. 2-storey gabled timber framed porch, jettied at first floor level and gables, projects by the width of three panels. There is a 4-light bowed, mullioned oriel below the gable jetty and shaped consoles below the first floor jetty. The porch contains a heavy ovolo-moulded frame without door but there is a C20 boarded door in ovolo moulded frame in line with the front wall of the house. There is a 5-light oriel below eaves at first floor level and a copy beneath at ground floor level. Timbers at the rear (west) exposed above a lean-to roof. An added wing (south-west) contains late C17 beams but is now mainly brickwork. The north gable end has timbers with angle braces above first floor level and a slightly jettied gable, now without exposed timbers. Interior: Inglenook, exposed timbers in walls, slight ovolo moulds to beams also some bevelled beams and exposed ceiling joist. At first floor level there are wide boarded doors on strap hinges,, timbers exposed in walls and exposed sections of trusses.

Listing NGR: SJ6435248077