Hall House Cottage This Ll Dew

Hall House Cottage, now divided into two dwellings, dates back to around 1500. An additional floor and stack were incorporated in the early 17th century, with further extensions and alterations occurring in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and has roughcast plastering, with thatched roofs. Originally comprising five bays—a two-bay open hall, a storeyed service bay, and two storeyed parlour bays—it has a large L-shaped plan following later extensions. A step leads to the right entrance of the hall; a recessed three-panelled door sits to the right, flanked by scattered single and two-light casement windows. A further entrance to a 20th-century addition is located to the left. Situated above the service bay is an original three-light square mullioned window to the right, and a two-light glazing bar dormer window over the hall. Two 20th-century two-light dormers are present to the left. The inserted ridge stack, centrally positioned, features two conjoined hexagonal shafts. The right end of the roof is half-hipped, revealing a single diamond mullioned opening and a two-light casement. At the rear, a cross entry door and a restored two-light diamond mullioned window are visible. The lower service wing, situated at the rear right, appears to be of timber frame or clay lump construction. The interior includes two service doorways with chamfered surrounds, one featuring a hollow moulded four-centred arched head with carved foliate spandrels, likely reused. The service bay contains a stop-chamfered axial binding beam. The hall exhibits tension bracing in the walls, traces of original six-light square mullioned windows, open truss posts with shafts, inserted stop-chamfered storey posts supporting a bar stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and stop-chamfered joists. A reused fireplace bressumer features hollow and roll mouldings, along with Tudor flower and upper embattled brattishing. The solar end wall displays reverse curved arched braces. Within the hall chamber, arched bracing is present in the front wall. There is an open truss stop-chamfered cambered tie beam, now cut, along with a cruciform crown post with a broached base (but no cap), four-centred arched braces to a collar purlin, and smoke-blackened rafters. In the parlour bays, the frame is largely concealed, with tension bracing in the walls, a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, a four-light diamond mullioned window to the rear, and a surviving closed truss crown post at the original left end. The group value of this building stems from its architectural and historical significance.