Wayland Hall

TL 7240-7340 RIDGEWELL CHAPEL ROAD 6/19 Wayland Hall, formerly 21/6/62 listed as Tudor

GV II

Hall house, late medieval, extended in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall house aligned NW-SE, extended to SE by 2 bays in early C17, with axial chimney stack at the junction, C17. C19 extension to SE roofed with handmade red clay tiles, and C20 extension to NE of it. Aspect SW. 2 storeys. C20 door and 5 C20 casement windows, 6 more on first floor. Roof hipped to NW, half-hipped to SE where it joins the C19 extension. Chimney stack has 2 octagonal shafts. One original window with 3 diamond mullions in rear elevation of earlier building at first-floor level, now glazed. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studding, an edge-forked scarf with 3 face-pegs in one tiebeam (of which no other examples are known at the time of the survey, 1983), smoke-blackened simple rafter roof in the original part, and some re-used smoke-blackened rafters in the C17 part. The floor in the original part has been wholly rebuilt in the C20. The floor in the C17 part has a plain-chamfered axial beam and joists of horizontal section.

Listing NGR: TL7377440952