Crepping Hall

Crepping Hall is a large timber-framed house dating to the late 12th century. Originally an open hall with aisles, approximately two and a half bays of the original hall range remain, with substantial additions made over the centuries. The house is timber-framed and plastered. The front elevation features three hornless, south-pane sash windows on the first storey, with one similar window containing margin sashes centrally on the ground floor, and further sash windows to the left and right. A front door is situated in the return of the west crosswing, surmounted by a broken pediment supported on consoles. The roofs are largely peg-tiled and ridged and gabled, except for the crosswing, which has a hip roof. A crosswing was added to the west end around 1512, showing original evidence for an attic floor with haunched tenons. Both the hall and the crosswing retain crown post roofs: the hall roof is straight side braced and heavily sooted, while the crosswing roof displays curved edge-bracing. The hall tie beam is steeply cambered, with the first floor representing an Elizabethan-era addition. A ground-floor arched oak doorway dates to around 1314.