The Old Hall

PREES C.P. MORETON STREET SJ 5433-5533 (west side) 14/80 The Old Hall - 28.10.60 GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Early C17, partly remodelled c.1762 with later additions and alterations. Timber frame, now rendered to left gable end and replaced by red brick to front; plain and machine tile roofs. L-plan with short range to rear on left and lean-to in angle. 2 storeys and former gable-lit attic with floor band and dentilled eaves cornice to front. Two-window front, 3-light late C19 casements with segmental heads. Entrance in left gable end through 4-panel door with rectangular barred overlight in bracketed open-pedimented doorcase; contemporary round-headed window above. Prominent red brick stack immediately in front of ridge to right of centre with recessed panels and corbelled top said formerly to have had initials "TB" and date"1762". Framing: exposed to right gable end and back wall; close-set vertical posts with long straight tension braces, V-struts from collar and double-purlin ends. Position of infilled mullion windows visible above tie beam and to back wall. Interior: inspection not possible at time of resurvey (January 1986) but apparently much altered on ground floor.

Listing NGR: SJ5566533553