Battles Hall

TQ 49 NE STAPLEFORD ABBOTTS HOOK LANE 2/19 Battles Hall II

Manor house, mid-C17, altered in C18. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Original range aligned approx. E-W, with C18 extensions to N, aspect S. 2 storeys with attics. S elevation, 2 C20 casement windows, one tripartite double-hung sash window, brick and tile lean-to double porch. First floor, 4 casement windows, 4 double-hung sash windows of 16, 12, 4 and 16 lights respectively, early C19. One gabled dormer with 3 small casement windows, C19. Roof hipped at E end only. Exposed beams above ground floor end first floor, plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, joists plastered to soffits. Jowled posts, straight tiebeams, short arched braces to them. Walls bricked and rendered up to first floor level only. Above the original wallplates the walls have been raised by approx. 1 metre in the C18 to enlarge the attics. The name Battles derives from Richard Battaile and others of his family who held the manor from 1165 (Morant, I, 175-6).

Listing NGR: TQ4959795943