Village Hall And Village Hall Cottage (East Of Vine House)

Westmill village TL 3627 WESTMILL HIGH STREET (north side) 8/10 Village Hall and Village Hall Cottage - (E of Vine House)

GV II

Barn, converted to village hall and caretakers house. C17 altered c1900 for Greg family of Coles. Timber frame roughcast on chamfered low red brick plinth. Steep old red tile roof (barn half-hipped in old photo). Half-timbered gabled porch to hall. 5-bay barn lying E-W, facing S. Hall in W two and a half bays is single-storey: 2 storeys E part as house. Queen-strut, side- purlin roof, jowled posts and curved braces to tie beams. Tall 6-light mullioned and transomed leaded window in W gable with half-timbered apex and simple moulded bargeboard. Large porch with low side-eaves has moulded bargeboard and heavy battened oak door in reused C16 ovolo moulded frame (head renewed). Tall slender arcaded louvre on roofridge with concial top and vane. House has a canted bay window with cornice, flat roof and leaded casements, flat topped dormer with cornice and 3-light casement window and battened door to right in simple surround with flat hoodon brackets. Hall has barrel vaulted plaster ceiling above tie-beams, moulded battens and heavy moulding along wallplate. Narrow full-height panel of Delft tiles with blue figures on white ground, on N wall.

Listing NGR: TL3684427127