Hall Court

MUCH MARCLE CP - SO 63 NW

4/49 Hall Court (formerly listed as Hall Court 18.11.52 and outbuildings)

GV II*

House. Early C17 with C16 re-used materials. Timber-frame with plaster infill, tiled roofs with three stacks each having engaged brick diagonal shafts. U-plan with five-bay main front facing east and returning west in two-bay cross-wings. Cellar, two storeys and attics. East elevation has 2:1:2:1:2 windows, late C19 to early C20 cross-casements, close- studding (probably re-used) to ground floor and square panelling to first floor; early C17 porch with enriched posts, bargeboards and pendant, double- leaved ledged studded doors with strap hinges to second bay from left. West elevation has central rubble side stack enveloped by early C19 lean-to with horizontal sliding sash; C20 lean-to masks bottom of left gable; both gables are square panelled, as east front, from first floor up; weatherings to gable casements; two casements are C17, one of three lights to left of central stack on first floor and another of two lights on the inner side return of the right wing, again on the first floor. Interior: cellar has re-used C16 moulded beams; heavy collar-trusses, each principal being supported by a vertical strut from tie-beam; main staircase in south wing near its junction with main range; panelling in south-east first, and ground-floor rooms, fireplaces and partitions survive in form noted in RCHM (Vol II, p 131-2). A large symmetrically planned house retaining many significant features.

Listing NGR: SO6439935365