Wheat Hall

SJ 40 SE CONDOVER C.P. WHEATHALL

9/122 Wheat Hall -

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C14 or early C15, re-modelled 1721 (datestone) with later additions and alterations. Red brick concealing timber frame, partly of cruck construction to rear, plain tile roof and raised verges. Original plan a 2-bay open hall with service bay or bays at west end and a 2-bay solar cross-wing slightly projecting at upper end; 3-bay brick range added to front 1721 and the cross-wing extended to north, forming present U-plan. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic to C18 range, floor bands and toothed eaves cornice; 3-window front, glazing bar sashes, replacing 5 infilled windows to first floor and 4 to ground floor; central entrance, early C19 pilastered doorcase with 4-panel door and rectangular overlight; integral corner end stack to right and external stack to back wall on left, ridge stack to former open-hall range. Datestone "W.D.(William Daker)/1721" over central first-floor window. Interior: inspection not possible at time of re-survey (February 1985) but central truss of hall range known to survive, arch-braced cruck (destroyed on ground floor) with cambered collar and v-struts, Alcock apex-type L2; first floor of cross-wing has close-studding with short straight tension braces exposed to side walls and former northern end wall but framing destroyed on ground floor; single-purlin roof with curved windbraces and central and northern trusses surviving, cambered collars supported by 3 vertical struts from tie beam (central one now missing on central truss), jowled wall posts with slightly arched braces to tie beam. An unusual feature is a pointed-arched recess with moulded stone lintel at south end of east side wall; this relates to a brick projection on the outside wall but its function is not known. V.C.H. VIII (1968) p. 36; Alcock (1981) p. 143; Salop County Sites and Monuments Record PRN 13259 (unpublished report by Madge Moran).

Listing NGR: SJ4969203791