West Hall And Attached Dwellings Forming Part Of West Hall Fold

SK39NE WENTWORTH CHURCH FIELD LANE (north-west side)

4/66 West Hall and attached dwellings forming part of West Hall Fold

GV II

Group of houses now 3 dwellings. C17 and C18, partly with C15 core. Internal timber-framing; sandstone, partly coursed, partly rubble; brick to part of rear; Welsh slate and stone slate roofs. Irregular H-shaped group. West Hall: 2 storeys with attic. Three 1st-floor windows with lower 2-storey wing to front right and additional single- storey single-window bay to right end. Single-storey block to rear of centre forms link to a 2-storey building which has lean-to and gabled additions to its rear and forms 2 dwellings.

West Hall: large quoins. Quoined doorway with panelled double door and 4-pane overlight. Flanking windows have projecting sills, 24-pane sashes and flat arches; similar windows to 1st floor. Rubble-walled wing to front right is of earlier character: small casements in return walls; door in right return; gable with ledge and 2 blocked openings beneath truncated brick end stack. Ashlar gable copings and renewed brick end stacks to main house. Bay to right end has stone slate roof; adjoining farmbuilding to right (not of special interest).

Rear of West Hall: partly brick-walled; truncated stone buttress at junction with lower end-bay.

Building to rear: rubble-walled; openings mostly altered. North-facing gable has irregular quoining embedded in lower wall; brick gable with exposed head of wall post and fragment of roof truss. Stone slate roof with end stacks.

Interior of West Hall: C18 part has contemporary central staircase; pedimented niche. in left ground-floor room. Attic with 3 hybrid roof trusses: curved principals with apexes triangulated in the form of king-post trusses. End wall of single-storey bay retains wall-posts, straight braces and cambered tie-beam; heads of another pair of wall posts with tie beam exposed at mid-point of bay; king-post trusses of light scantling visible in roof void.

Building to rear: not fully inspected. Encases a timber-framed structure of which 2 bays appear to remain. Original roof structure with cross-braced crown posts: one truss remaining intact has cambered tie beam; middle truss of same type now obscured by stack; end truss mutilated. A very rare survival of its type in this region.

P. F. Ryder, notes in County Ancient Monuments and Sites Record, Sheffield, primary index no 2177.

Listing NGR: SK3833298301