Old Hall Farmhouse

EDGEFIELD RECTORY ROAD TG 03 SE Old Hall Farmhouse (formerly 6/21 listed as Riche's. Farm known as 4.10.60. Hall Farm dated 1468) II House, C16 with additions c1600. Flint with brick dressings, pantile roof. 3 cell single range, porch to front, stair turret and wing to rear. 2 storeys and attic. Off-centre axial stack to right, internal left gable end stack rebuilt. Front renewed 1980's. C19 and C20 3-light casements with glazing bars; 2 gabled roof dormers with casements to right. Right hand gable rebuilt and chimney stack renewed. Single storey outshut to front at right hand side. Right wall of renewed flint under brick gable with tumbled brickwork. Pantile roof. Projecting 3 storeyed gabled brick porch with pantiles, c1600; clasping polygonal buttresses ending in pyramidal finials. Doorway with semicircular head under renewed rendered pediment: rendered rusticated jambs. Semicircular fanlight with glazing bars; first and second floor casement windows under rendered pediments, that to first floor having glazing bars and rendered rusticated jambs; fire insurance plaque under second storey window. Rear: central 3-storeyed stair turret has 4 blocked openings and one casement window. 2 storeyed wing to left, c1600. French window, c1985, in ground floor gable end. Small infill extension with catslide roof between stair turret and wing. C19 single storey service addition to left of wing. Interior: ovolo moulded doorcases to front outshut and to rear wing; large ovolo moulded doorcase with elaborate stops to stair turret; moulded lintel to window in central bay; first floor principal beams chamfered, some with bar stops. Roof much renewed; new roof to rear wing; internal gable end stack removed on ground and attic floors of wing; first floor has brick fireplace with elliptical arch.

Listing NGR: TG0945434958