Friars Hall

RATTLESDEN HIGH TOWN GREEN TL 95 NE 3/93 Friar's Hall - - II House, C15 with alterations of C17 and later. A 3-cell house with an open hall at the centre, a C17 parlour cell to right and a service cell to left. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof, half- hipped at left-hand end. An axial early C17 chimney of red brick with twin octagonal flues. 3 C20 eyebrow casement dormers. C20 casements with leaded lights. C20 gabled plaintiled entrance porch with boarded door. The open hall has a good central truss: a cambered archbraced tiebeam, and an octagonal crownpost with moulded and embattled capital and 4-way braces. A blocked 2- centred arched rear cross-entry doorway. In early C17 a chimney was placed in the cross-entry with back-to-back open fireplaces, and the service cell was demolished and replaced by a parlour with an ovolo-moulded binding beam. Two Small Medieval Houses: Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch: Sylvia Colman B.Sc. 1967.

Listing NGR: TL9716056841