Hormead Hall

TL 4030 11/59 19.10.51

HORMEAD HALL LANE (East side) Great Hormead Hormead Hall

GV II

Manor house. C16, hall floored and house renovated in C17 with kitchen wing at NW, rear wing altered and dormers added in C20. Timber frame plastered, with steep red tile roofs. A long 2-storeys house facing S with cellar under E end. S front has 3 windows and a half glazed door in a trelliswork porch. 3-light small paned casements. Canted bay. 2 large hipped dormers at eaves give more light to the 1st floor partly in the roof. Tall red brick chimney a third from E end with separate octagonal shafts and moulded caps in line across ridge, and 2 similar shafts to rectangular external W gable chimney. Internally the W room has lower floor level and axial joists suggesting it was added possibly in C17. Central part of 3 bays, now a passage and hall, has 2 cross beams and paired axial beams staggered in line, of a floor inserted in the former open hall and service bay. There is an edge-halved scarf joint in the front wallplate, and a tie beam across the W face of the chimney put in when the tie-beam of the open-truss of the hall was cut back to the wallplates. At the NE corner of the hall an old door with moulded jambs, 3-centred doorhead and carved spandrels leads to the E parlour with cellar below. This has a fine stone moulded fire surround with 4-centred arch and spandrels carved with heraldic shields probably of John Delawood and his wife Katherine. The tall chamber over the hall has an C18 iron basket grate. A moated site. Centre of Redeswall Manor. (RCHM (1911)102 No. 2: VCH (1914)69, 72).

Listing NGR: TL4050730448