Hockley Hall

TAMWORTH

SP29NW WHATELEY LANE, Hockley 670-1/5/35 (West side) 09/11/72 Hockley Hall

II

House. C17 with later alterations and additions. Brick, now rendered, with C19 brick gables; tile roof with brick stack. T-plan with single-storey rear wing. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range with full-height gabled wing. Platt band to ground floor and to 1st floor and attic of wing; kneelers to gables. Segmental-headed windows have plaster wedge lintels and 2- or 3-light small-paned casements; 1st floor and attic windows to wing only, but 1st floor to right has blocked 3-light chamfered-mullioned window revealed internally; large cross-axial stack. C20 lean-to porch to right return; rear has later single-storey gabled wing with lean-to outshuts to return and end. INTERIOR: Back-to-back fireplaces to ground floor, room to left has stop-chamfered beam and joists, room to right has ovolo-moulded beam with run-out stops; dog-leg stair to front of chimneys; stop-chamfered beams to 1st floor, blocked entrance to rear; attic has queen-strut trusses, signs of hood to 1st floor fireplace to one side of chimney. Jacobean-style ashlar finials in garden said to have come from gables.

Listing NGR: SP2254599922