Over Hall

TL 83 SE COLNE ENGAINE OVERHALL HILL (south side)

3/23 Over Hall 5.8.86

GV II

House. Early C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with tuck pointing, roofed with slate. Rectangular main block facing W, with 2 service wings to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 4 French windows with some crown glass. First floor, 5 sashes of 12 lights with shallow segmental arches of gauged brick, with original external sliding louvred shutters. Central double half-glazed doors with overlight, Greek Doric portico with triglyph frieze and guttae, and 4 stone steps. 4 plain giant pilasters. Terrace with tented metal canopy on cast iron stanchions. Long overhanging eaves, hipped roof of shallow pitch. The right return has 2 similar French windows, and on the first floor 2 similar sashes (without shutters) and one round window with radial tracery. The interior has 2 original staircases with slender turned balusters, 6-panel door, and numerous original features. A bargain and sale of 1810 records that the property was sold by lsaac Brown and John Share to John Jeremiah Mayhew. An inscription 'NIA 1834' is burned into the wood below the stairs. A slate was found in the roof inscribed 'John White, Earl's Colne, May the 21, 1831, Z. Rogers, J. Newport, Bricklayers'.

Listing NGR: TL8623230818