Welle Manor Hall

UPWELL NEW ROAD TF 5002 15/40 Welle Manor Hall (formerly listed as 11.8.51 Rectory) G.V. II* Manor House. Mid C14 origin, altered c.1480, C17 and C20. Brick with slate or plain tile roofs. North front of 3 storeys. Full height late C15 porch to left with stone arched doorway of roll and hollow mouldings. Plank and muntin door opens into hall. First floor sash window of porch in original opening below square hood mould on labels. Stepped gable on kneelers with apical ashlar pinnacle set into and protruding above the brickwork. To right of porch 2 stepped gable bays separated by large buttress. Bays of uneven size. Floors defined by arcade of brick trefoils, that between ground and first floors interrupted by the buttress. 3 timber cross casements to ground floor with leaded lights, 2 similar to first floor and one in each gable head. Facade closed to right by polygonal staircase tower entered through arched door. To left of porch a large brick C19 extension of 2 bays and dormer attic : large enternal chimney breast, one sash window each floor and gabled roof. Ridge stack and dormer window right of centre. West return with external stack rising from narrow brick bay. To left one 2-light round arched casement at first floor. C20 casement to ground. South front of 2 gabled bays with C15 polygonal full height stair-turret to right. This with C19 hipped roof. Abutting tower to left is additional 2 storey square tower probably of C14 date, also with C19 pyramid roof. Polygonal stair tower with 3 windows in south facet : to ground floor 2 round-headed lights in square opening; first floor has tall round-headed window with sash below a casement; top floor with 2 round-headed lights beneath square hood on labels. C19 saw toothed eaves cornice. Square tower ground floor obscured by C20 extension. First floor round-headed window under hood mould. Stepped buttress supports western gable to right of which is segmental-headed doorway, first floor sash window and attic casement. C19 extension to east of 2 storeys and dormer attic. Fenestration of cross casements. Gabled cross wing to right with canted bay window through 2 storeys. Gabled roof. Interior. Hall entered from porch through C15 door decorated with arches and shallow niches. Hall retains 2 arched doorways to screen, now blocked. Each of c.1360 with complex wave moulded jambs and continuous arches. Rear stair turret with spiral brick staircase to attic. First floor music room has 2 blocked lancet lights with leaded glass. Roofs of crown posts with straight braces from tie beams and to crown purlin. Crown posts of square section, chamfered at corners, of C15 origin but most of timbers renewed.

Listing NGR: TF5060502717