Robert Hall Farmhouse And Farm Building Adjoining To East In Same Range

Robert Hall Farmhouse and Farm Building, Tatham

A house and barn dating from the late 16th century with early 17th-century additions. The main range was substantially altered in the late 19th century when the eastern part of the house was converted into a barn. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble with a steep slate roof and stands two storeys high.

The north facade shows evidence of the building's age and modifications. The right-hand part originally had wooden-mullioned windows, of which two external timber lintels remain on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The left-hand opening is now blocked and the right-hand one contains a modern window with plain reveals. The first floor window is partly blocked. To the right on the first floor is a four-light mullioned window with a hood. Above the door on the left is a sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround. The door itself, originally serving a cross-passage, has a chamfered surround with a pointed arch.

The barn wall to the left has been largely re-faced, with a wide entrance having plain reveals and a timber lintel. Above this entrance, a cartouche bearing the Cansfield arms has been re-set into the wall. A modern lean-to covers the wall to the left. To the right, a chimney breast projects at first floor level on stone corbels, now truncated at eaves level. The left gable has had its chimney cap removed, while the right gable retains a massive external chimney stack that served the kitchen.

On the rear wall, the house occupies the left portion. The left bay contains a three-light chamfered mullioned window on the ground floor and a first floor window with stone surround within an earlier opening. On the right at first floor level is a three-light mullioned window with a hood, with a window of plain reveals below. A blocked doorway at the right, originally to a cross-passage, now contains a window. The barn to the right has several blocked openings and a large chimney stack with offsets projecting forwards. Adjoining this is a stair turret, probably an early 17th-century addition now sheltered under a lean-to roof, with blocked mullioned and transomed windows. On each floor to the right are blocked windows, each with mullions of a different type.

Against the western gable stands a lower wing of early 17th-century date, adjoining at an acute angle. It features chamfered and hollow-chamfered mullioned windows. On the ground floor, its east wall has a one-light window to the left of the door and a two-light window to the right. The first floor has three-light windows with hoods, one similar window with one mullion removed, and a two-light window without a hood. The door has plain reveals and a chimney rises on the right gable. The west wall of this wing contains three two-light windows on the ground floor, three three-light windows with hoods on the first floor, and windows with plain reveals at the right on each floor. The door here also has plain reveals.

Internally, the barn contains a blocked fireplace with a segmental arch in the south wall and a smaller blocked fireplace above it. A blocked first floor fireplace in the north wall features a moulded surround and a lintel inscribed '?CE 1627'. The roof comprises trusses with tie beams and collars, the western truss being wind-braced.

The house contains timber-framed internal partitions of late 16th-century type on the ground and first floors. A ground-floor doorway has a depressed-ogee head. The western wing retains some timber-framed internal walls and on the first floor has two original plank doors with timber surrounds. The northern first floor room of this wing contains square-framed panelling of 17th-century type.