Ancillary Building Within The Moat Of Fingrith Hall Farm

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TL60SW FINGRITH HALL LANE 723-1/2/20 Ancillary building within the moat of Fingrith Hall Farm

GV II

Ancillary building of uncertain original purpose, now agricultural, within the moat at Fingrith Hall Farm (not included). C17, altered in C18/early C19. Timber-framed, mainly weatherboarded, some red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 5 bays facing SW, early C17, 2-bay cross-wing at left end, late C17. C20 open lean-to along rear of main range, roofed with corrugated iron. All of 2-storeys, but the cross-wing is higher than the main range. 0.33m brick walls at left side of cross-wing up to first floor, of which 2 are blocked. One slatted high window. Other small areas of brickwork, and brick partitions. INTERIOR: chamfered binding and bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops. Unjowled posts, straight braces inside studding, slightly cambered tie-beams, raking struts to clasped purlin roof. The first floor of the main range forms one undivided space, which may have been used originally as a manorial court hall. Probably the ground floor was always in agricultural use, or stables; it is now much sub-divided by later brick and other partitions. The floor has been raised in the 3 right bays. The cross-wing has unjowled posts, thin studding with primary straight bracing, and a joggled butt-purlin roof with angle ties.

Listing NGR: TL6090803627