Hall Farmhouse

SO 49 NW SMETHCOTT C.P. PICKLESCOTT

3/87 Hall Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16 and C17, partly rebuilt in C18 and probably mid- C19. Timber framed with red brick nogging on high sandstone rubble plinth, partly clad in metal sheeting; largely rebuilt in brick and sandstone rubble, partly rendered. Plain tile roof. H-plan; central 2-bay baffle-entry hall range with 2-bay projecting gabled wings. Framing: square panels, 3 (possibly formerly 4) from sole plate to wall plate. 2 storeys. South front: chamfered plinth and plat bands to centre and right-hand wing; C20 eyebrow dormer off-centre to left with 3-light wooden casements, and large brick ridge stack off-centre to right. 1:2:1 windows; early to mid-C20 two- and 3-light wooden casements. Boarded door off-centre to right with hipped-roofed wooden porch and boarded door to right-hand cross-wing with large late C20 flat-roofed addition in front. Rear: bread oven and stair turret in angle of western cross wing. Gable of western cross wing has exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts. Interior: timber framed cross walls; chamfered beams with ogee stops, that to hall range with deep chamfer; large open fireplace in right-hand cross wing with chamfered and ogee-stopped wooden lintel; staircase with barleysugar splat balusters. Hall range has collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and v- struts; chamfered purlins. The farm forms part of a small village- centre farmstead group also including a barn to the north-east (q.v.) and a cow house (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO4349499496