Bedingham Hall Farmhouse

BEDINGHAM HALL ROAD TM 29 SE 5/12 Bedingham Hall Farmhouse 5-9-60 (formerly listed under Bedington Green and as Rookery Farmhouse (also known as Hall Farmhouse))

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Farmhouse. C17 and C18. Red brick; steeply-pitched roof of smut pantiles, hipped at south-west corner. Two storeys and attics, L-shaped plan. South elevation has two shaped gables; four bays with 3-light casements with transom. Windows set in raised brick surrounds, ground floor openings have gauged brick arches. Some openings blocked: one at ground floor and two at first floor level. Platbands at first floor level and at gable springing. Brick dentil cornice. Shaped east gable on moulded brick kneelers; external gable stack, corbelled out above ground floor level, with weathered offsets and rebuilt top. Later slated 2-storey lean-to in north-east angle. East wall has 2 and 3-light casements, central doorway with blocked window opening above. Sawtooth brick eaves. Shaped north gable with internal chimney stack; two attic casements with cross-glazing bars, two blocked first floor openings. West facade has a shaped gable over an advanced centre bay with a 3-light casement at each floor level; window set in raised surrounds. Plain brick pilasters. Fenestration generally 2 & 3 light casements. Flanking the centre bay, two later projecting porches with shaped gables; the northern porch is lower and has a blocked doorway with a square brick dripmould and panel in chamfered recess above. Southern porch has a doorway with rubbed arch and rectangular fanlight. Doorway at north-west corner with Gothick panelled door and moulded architrave. Brick modillion eaves. Ridge chimney stack off-centre to south.

Listing NGR: TM2938293055