Hartford Hall Hotel

HARTFORD C.P. SCHOOL LANE SJ 67 SW (East Side) 4/41 Hartford Hall Hotel (formerly listed as Hartford Manor) 10.3.53

• II

Formerly manor house, how hotel: late C16/early C17 remodelled early-mid C19 with later additions and alterations. Stuccoed timber framing and brick, Welsh slate roof of parallel ridges. 2 ridge brick chimneys with sawtooth detailing. Plan developed from a hall and crosswing to a straggling plan of 2 parallel ranges. 2-storey, 5-bay front. 4th bay has projecting 2-storey gabled porch with some original timberwork in 1st floor and gable. To the left is a line of 3 gables with applied timber decoration, a plastered jetty and 2 and 3-light casements with cusped glazing bars in the heads. Similar windows to right hand former crosswing with small framed gable. Extensions on all 3 sides have similar fenestration. Interior: Entry through original porch with Jacobean plaster panel to ceiling with strapwork centre. Former hall has quarter-round moulded. ceiling beams, and flattened ogee head to the original rear door. Left gable wall shows as open timber framing in the bar. Pine staircase with turned column balusters, Upstairs "Nun's Room" reveals original filled trusses of vertical studs and wind braced purlins. Also has a blocked 4-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned and transomed window.

Listing NGR: SJ6427671670