West Hall Farm House

TF 73 NW SEDGEFORD

5/97 West Hall Farm House. 5/6/53 - II

Farmhouse. C16 or c.l600 to east, c.1800 refenestration and additions to west. Earlier house carstone with brick dressings, c.1800 addition brick, both with red pantiled roof. 2 storey earlier build partly incorporated in centre with c.1800 build of 6 regular bays and 2 storeys. C.1800 house with 4 ground and 5 first floor sashes with glazing bars, 2 bays to west under rubbed brick arches, 3 to west inserted into carstone wall with at ground floor one surviving c.1600 chamfered brick dressed casement of 3 lights, one blocked ground floor and 2 first floor blocked earlier windows. Central c.1900 door with rectangular fanlight. To east the earlier house has an outshut roof brought forward lower than eaves of the c.1800 roof, with one ground blocked c.1600 brick dressed window, lean-to C20 greenhouse and C20 flat roofed half-dormer. On return to west a c.1800 6 panel raised and fielded door with swept lead roofed canopy with valances, turned cast iron uprights and cast iron pierced panels with anthemion and other Greek Revival motifs. Steeply pitched roof, earlier build with c.1600 axial brick 3 shaft octagonal stack , c.1800 build with one axial and one west gable stack. To north outshut additions 2 storey at west and single storey at east. Attached to west gable a lean-to swept parapet brick wall built over the adjacent stream with an arch forming a watergate.

Listing NGR: TF7078136419