How Hall And Forecourt Court Garden Walls To South

TM 29 NE HOWE THE GREEN

2/25 How Hall and forcourt 25.9.51 court garden walls to south. GV II

House. Early C17, with later C17 wing to rear. Brick-clad timber frame, brick in English bond. Pantile and tile roofs. 3-cell cross passage-type plan to south, later wing at right angles to rear, giving T-shaped plan. Facade (to south) in mid-C18 brick of 4 bays, 2 storeys. Off-centre C20 door with semicircular brick arch over, blocked fanlight; flnaked by C20 canted bays; to left a 3-light C19 casement with transom under segmental arch. 3 3-light C18 casements to first floor with timber lintels; fourth, dummy, window to left hand end. Kneelered parapet gables. Off-centre axial stack and eastern gable end stack. Garden to south of facade enclosed by wall in English bond brick, clm high. North wing of house in C17 brick. To west an oak chamfered mullion window with fanlight of original kitchen door to its north; first floor C20 casement and blocked opening. to east one C18 casement with evidence of larger opening to left; one window with timber lintel now obscured by outshut. 2 long windows now with leaded case- ments to upper floor; small blocked stair light. Parapet gables with re- used stone kneelers, that to east with angel bearing shield. Gable end stack. 2 blocked attic lights to gable. C20 lean-to and extension not of special interest. Interior. Remains of timber framed staircase outshut incorporated into rear wing. Ovolo moulded beams. Wall posts and tie beams of C17 timber frame at first floor in south wing. Lintel of upper window in east face of rear wing bears mortice for 10 light mullioned window. Butt purlin roof, restored in C20 with remains of queen-post construction.

Listing NGR: TM2703699666