Hall House

TL 31NE WARE RURAL BAKERS END (west side) 2/25 Hall House

GV II

House. Late medieval, probably early C16. Timberframed and plastered, partly replaced in plastered brick. Steep old red tile roofs. One and a half storeys, 2-storeys E wing, 3-windows to ground floor, one in jettied upper floor and 3 cabled dormers. 3-light flush casements with small panes. 2-light in dormers and E window of ground floor. 4-panel door with flat hood on shaped brackets. Built as a small open-hall house facing S with a jettied crosswing on the E and a 2-storey service bay at the W end. In cross-passage 2 doors with hollow chamfered 4-centred heads to the service rooms. Part of similar door head at N end of passage. Exposed close studding over hall. Open truss with hollow chamfered tie-beams, rebated crown-post and thin two-way bracing to the collar purlin. Floor inserted in hall and central chimney built backing onto the cross-passage in the mid or late C17. Chimney offset to S to give room for the single stair probably replacing one at each end of house. Lateral chimney added to serve parlour in cross-wing in late C17 or early C18. Chimney on W gable dates from the conversion of this end to a living room. House made into 3 cottages in C19, now recently restored (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3958717131