Baker'S Hall

BURES HAMLET COLNE ROAD TL 9033 (east side) 6/39 Baker's Hall II Colne Road is wrongly shown on the O.S. map as Parsonage Hill. House. C16 and C17, altered in C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 5 bays facing E with axial chimney stack one bay from right end, and truncated chimney stack, originally external, enclosed in right end. C18/19 extension to rear of left end, and flat-roofed single-storey extensions to each side of it. 2 storeys. 4-window range of sashes, all C18 double-hung, of 16 lights with some crown glass, except right ground-floor window, which is single- hung, early C19, of 15 lights. Half-glazed door with flattened columns to each side, early C19. Left end of roof hipped. The right ground-floor room has plain joists of horizontal section, jointed to the bridging beam with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, and jowls are visible in the rear wall of this bay. Elsewhere, chamfered or plain beams, joists plastered to the soffits. The front wall has been raised approx. 1 metre in the C18, leaving the rear wall and tiebeams unaltered. Upper rooms fully plastered. Formerly called Normandies.

Listing NGR: TL9001233411