Hall Farmhouse And Brookland

SJ 30 SE 11/84

MINSTERLEY C.P. MINSTERLEY Hall Farmhouse and Brookland

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Shown on O. S. map as Hall Farm. Farmhouse, now divided. Mid-to late C17, altered and extended in the late C19. Timber framed with painted brick nogging on brick plinth, clad in galvanised metal sheeting at rear; partly rebuilt or refaced and extended in red brick on coursed rubblestone plinth, painted to front, partly in imitation framing; plain tile roofs. Hall range of 3 framed bays aligned east-west with projecting gabled cross-wing to left of 2 framed bays with C19 parallel cross-wing. Framing: square panels (4 from sole-plate to wall-plate) with short straight corner braces; top 2 tiers of panels to left-hand part of hall range appear to be later additions after the eaves of this part were raised at a later date. Two storeys. Brick ridge stacks to hall range and cross-wing, and integral brick lateral stack to right of C19 cross-wing. North front: hall range to left with 2 first-floor C19 two-light wooden casements to right, ground-floor C20 three-light metal casement to right and C20 door off-centre to right; cross-wings: left-hand with C20 three-light metal casement on each floor, and right-hand with first-floor C19 three-light segmental- headed wooden casements, pair of segmental-headed French casements to right and segmental-headed 6-panelled door to left with bracketed lean-to porch. Left-hand return front has 6-panelled door with lean-to porch: Exposed collar and tie-beam truss with raking struts in left-hand gable end of main range. Interior only partly inspected; chamfered beams with ogee stops in cross-wing.

Listing NGR: SJ3742204908