Old Hall

TF 91 NE BEETLEY CHURCH ROAD (north west side)

3/2 Old Hall 4/12/51

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Farmhouse. C16 and later. Timber frame faced with colourwashed brick. Brick porch and pantile roofs: Southern half of house probably C16: heightened, widened and re-roofed in C17 to be in line with contemporary extension. 2 storeys with attics. Facade with central 2-storey porch of c.1700 with a 3-centred, ovolo-moulded, arched entrance, an ovolo-moulded platband and an original first floor 3-light mullion and transom window beneath a skewback arch with 3-centred soffit. Fine curvilinear gable with moulded brick finial. Oval medallion in gable and a pair of oval side windows. Varied fenestration with 2 C18 3-light mullion windows and similar window with transom to ground floor. Other facade windows C19 and C20. One blocked 3-light diamond mullion window in north gable. 2 blocked ovolo-moulded mullion windows to west. Central axial stack with rebuilt angled shafts. Later extension to rear. Interior. Timber frame largely intact supporting a butt-purlin roof with collars and wind bracing. Original winding stair to north gable-end. Some C17 plank doors; one with cock's head hinges. One fireplace with an early C18 bolection moulded surround. The heightening and widening of the original house realised by the use of large curved brackets visible from within later lean-to extension.

Listing NGR: TF9711318868