Nether Hall

OTLEY OTLEY BOTTOM TM 25 NW 8/113 16/3/66 Nether Hall - II

Heuse. - C16. Timber framed with colourwashed render and a plain tiled roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: gabled C20 porch at left of centre with a 5-light window at centre and with a C20 plank door to right flank with 2 light windows at either side. To left of this porch is a window of 3 lights and to right are a 4-light, a 5-light and a 2-light window, of C20 timber, incorporating the sides and heads of C16 window openings but with lowered sills. To the first floor are 2 three-light windows and one 4- light and one 5-light windows and a single-light window above the porch. To the ridge at left of centre is a massive stack rebuilt at the top in C20 brick with 2 flues. Right hand gable end: close studding to both floors with a projecting C20 hipped bay window to the ground floor of 4 lights and with 2 lateral lights at either side. To the first floor are 2 three-light casements divided by a king mullion with shallow, lateral 2-light casements. To the right of this is an extending wing which has French windows to the ground floor and a 3-light first floor casement with ovolo- moulded mullions and at either side shallow 3-light casements. Five-light first floor window. At left and projecting is a C20 lean-to with pantile roof. Rear: projecting wing at left which is blank to the gable end and has to its right flank a 3-light casement and to right of this wing is a 4- light C20 ground floor casement and above this a window of 7 lights and a small 2-light window to right again of this which has outshuts at either side and C20 fenestration of three 3-light and a single-light ground floor windows-and a 3-light window to the first floor.

Interior: close studded walling to the ground floor rooms with chamfered ceiling beams. The sitting room is formed from the hall, screens passage and servive rooms of a hall house the positon of whose walls can still be traced by mortice holes in the ceiling beams. The window heads show mortice holes for diamond-section mullions and there are shutter slides.

Listing NGR: TM2056654231