Martin Hall Farmhouse

SO 86 SE MARTIN HUSSINGTREE CP DRURY LANE (south side)

4/17 Martin Hall Farmhouse

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• II*

Farmhouse, now house. C16 with mid-C18 and late C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed, with painted brick infill, brick replacement walling, refacing and additions, plain tiled roofs, brick chimney to main ridge with 4, clustered diagonal shafts, also 2 brick stacks to left side elevation and rear. Hall and cross-wing plan; hall on north/south axis with through-passage, and cross-wing at south gable end with large chimney at junction; both parts of 2 framed bays. Two storeys, attic and cellar beneath cross-wing; dentilled eaves cornice. Framing: hall range is jettied at rear, possibly the original front elevation, with close-set vertical studding at ground and first floor levels and chamfered brackets. Close-set vertical studding continues around left side elevation. Right gable end has 4 square panels from sill to wall-plate, straight braces in lower corners, also slightly curved braces in lower corners at first floor level; collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts in gable. Front elevation: refaced with brick in late C19; main part has a ground floor 4-light and 2-light casement, both with cambered heads, and a 2-light and 3-light first floor case- ment; between the two ground floor windows, at the right end of the left bay is the main entrance, having a doorcase with open pediment and dentilled cornice on moulded brackets and with a plank and battened door; the cross-wing gable end has a ground and first floor 3-light casement with cambered head; a narrow part-glazed door has been inserted in the central light of the ground floor window. Interior: roof above hall part has single row of trenched purlins, elbowed wind-braces and an intermediate interrupted tie-beam truss; roof above cross-wing has 2 rows of trenched purlins, straight wind-braces and raking strut trusses. The front, ground floor room of the cross-wing has a cross- beamed ceiling. Main beams are stop chamfered. Mid-Cl7 open well staircase with spiral balusters and moulded handrail to rear cross-wing. Late C19 rear extensions, including a dairy wing, now conceal rear jetty.

Listing NGR: SO8825160201