Wennington Hall

Wennington Hall is a house dating from the 15th century, featuring an open hall with a late medieval crosswing at the southwest end, and a 16th to 17th century crosswing at the northeast end. The building is timber framed, with parts exposed and parts rendered in plaster. It has a reed thatched roof, which is hipped at the southwest crosswing, and includes rebuilt ridge chimney stacks above the open hall. There is a projecting 16th century end stack at the northeast crosswing. The original layout consists of the open hall and the southwest crosswing, with the later crosswing now creating a double-ended hall house. The open hall has one storey and an attic, featuring metal casements in enlarged or inserted window openings, and a doorway located in the southwest wall of the open hall. The southwest crosswing is two storeys high with exposed framing, comprising four bays and a stair turret on the northeast wall. The wall framing displays characteristics similar to those found at Green Farm Cottage, Chestnut Cottage, and the Moat House in Abbots Ripton, including a middle rail, weathered frame, jowled post heads, and downward wall bracing. On the northwest side, the sole plate of the southwest crosswing is continuous with that of the open hall. The northeast crosswing, dating from the 16th to 17th century, also has two storeys with metal casements on both levels. The interior was not seen.