Oak Hall

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TM 47 SW 4/30

DARSHAM LONDON ROAD Oak Hall

II

House. Late C16 or early C17; a floor beam is dated 1589, which may be the date of erection. Rendered timber frame. Steeply-pitched slate roof with gabled ends. Brick axial stack.

3-room plan with axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces heating centre and left left hand (SW) rooms; smaller right hand room is unheated. Position of original front doorway not certain but there may have been a lobby entrance in front of the stack. Staircase behind the stack and circa C19 outshut behind that. Subsequently divided into 3 cottages and now reunited into one house.

2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 3-4 window range. Large late C20 wooden mullion windows, some with smaller side lights. Doorway to right of centre with C20 plank door. At rear various C20 casements and 2 dormers and circa C19 brick outshut to right of centre.

Interior: All wall studding replaced, south west gable wall and north east gable rebuilt. The first floors over right and left hand rooms replaced. The central room has chamfered cross-beam and joists with straight cut stops and large fireplace with raised lintel. Rebuilt partition between centre and right hand rooms. Left hand room has brick fireplace with raised lintel. Chambers over hall and right hand room have chamfered cross-beams and exposed joists. Curved braces in the partitions of the stack bay. Exposed jowled wall-posts. The roof structure is entirely C19 or early C20.

Listing NGR: TM4119070860