Chippenhall Hall

Chippenhall Hall is a manor farmhouse dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, built in three or four phases. The external walls are timber-framed and plastered, with colourwashed brick to the ground floor of the front facade. The roof is pantiled, with glazed black tiles towards the front. The house is two storeys and has an attic. It is arranged around a central hall range with flanking cross-wings; a former dairy range adjoins the rear of the left cross-wing. There are four windows, with 19th-century and mid-20th century three-light casements. The later windows are on the first floor and have square-leaded panes, accompanied by 19th-century hood moulds. The entrance is a 19th-century doorway with a four-panel door, a rectangular fanlight above, flanked by pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. Axial stacks are located on each cross-wing, with an external stack to the rear of the hall range. The left or parlour cross-wing dates to the 16th century and displays good exposed timbering with close studding; part of the forwardmost bay is missing, and the stack in the rear bay is a later addition. The early 17th century former dairy range was originally detached and now has two bays, but originally extended further to the rear; evidence of large diamond-mullioned first-floor windows remains, now infilled with later studding. The roof is of a queen post type. The remaining house is from the early to mid-17th century, built in two phases, with much of the structure visible. A good early- to mid-17th century dog-leg staircase features turned balusters and square newel posts with ball finials. The hall contains a re-used bridging beam and two ovolo-moulded doorways, one of which likely once provided access to a stair. The stack in the right wing incorporates unfired brick.