Hall Farmhouse

TL 4945 20/182 22.11.67

HINXTON HIGH STREET (East Side) No. 58 (Hall Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C16 with late C16 or early C17 alterations and additions, replanned in C19. Timber-framed and plastered with painted brick plinth. Plain tiled roofs. Two end stacks to south of cross wings of C19 red and gault brick with some reused brick; reduced painted brick stack to north gable. One storey and attic with cellar. Main range possibly an open hall reroofed with two jettied cross wings to east and west. West cross wing early C16 jettied also to street elevation with stair turret surviving C19 demolition of north chimney. East cross wing late C16 or early C17. Main entrance from street with six-panelled C19 door, one sixteen-paned hung sash window to right hand and two similar first floor windows. Pantiled lean-to bakehouse and brewhouse to south of east cross wing. Interior: West cross wing substantial timber-frame of three bays with closed truss dividing bays in two and one. Moulded cross beams to main room with ogee-hollow-chamfers repeated in side purlins with hollow-chamfered collar, wind and arch braces to roof trusses. A late C14 stone arcade panel of five bays is said to have been removed from the church in the C19 by the church warden. Carved spandrels resited above doors, may be original to the buildiing, and also the folded leaf bressumer reused in east cross wing, possibly taken from the west cross wing hearth; all other details C19. R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p221

Listing NGR: TL4956145318