Hall Farmhouse

BITTERLEY

SO57NE SNITTON 482-1/6/101 Hall Farmhouse 15/03/74 (Formerly Listed as: SNITTON Snitton)

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Farmhouse. C16 with C19 alterations and extensions. Painted timber-frame with painted render or brick infill on brick plinth, stone rubble, and brick. Plain-tile roof. Central brick stack with 4 spurred shafts and ornamental capping, projecting brick eaves stack to rear. T-shaped original plan of range and cross wing with C19 brick extension and rear lean-to extensions. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and attic. South front has much restored and renewed square-framing 3 panels high per floor with decorative inset raking studs at first floor. Single C19 wood mullioned window to each floor and 3-light casement in attic of cross wing to left. Main range to right with one C19 wood mullion and transom window to each floor. Left-hand return gable: square framing with brace each side and single first-floor casement, but otherwise covered by single-storey and attic projecting brick gabled wing. Wing rebuilt with mid C19 banded polychrome brick with segmental-arched window openings at ground floor and 3 dormers over with lattice leading. Old nail-studded boarded door to right. Right-hand return gable: rebuilt in C19 brick with 2 casements and single casements at attic and ground floor, all with brick segmental arches. Rear generally covered by brick and stone, tile-roofed, continuous lean-to but with cross wing gable framing exposed above first-floor window level. Gable-end truss with part-jettied straight tie beam, 2 collars with twin raking struts over, 4 vertical struts framing 2-light casement between, and below are 3 vertical struts flanking panels with convex struts forming star pattern. Tie beam has soffit of double-ovolo chamfer-moulding with stops for oriel window. C19 mullion and transom replacement window is flanked by square framing with inset raking studs forming herringbone pattern. 3-light casement inset to the left with abutting framed outshut. INTERIOR: ceiling beams with ribbed chamfered edging, the ribbing continued along the outward-turning chamfered stops at beam ends.

Listing NGR: SO5572075388