Hall House Cottage This Ll Dew

RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR THE STREET.(SOUTH EAST TM 0475 SIDE) 6/151 Hall House Cottage and - This-ll-Dew GV II House, latterly 3 and now 2 dwellings. c.1500, floor and stack inserted early C17, extended and altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered and roughcast. Thatched roofs. Originally 5 bays with a 2 bay open hall, storeyed service bay and 2 storeyed parlour bays; stack inserted in lower parlour bay, service wing added to rear in C19, parlour end extended C20, now a large L on plan. All 1 storey and attic. Steps up to an entrance to right into hall, a recessed 3 panelled door, a second door to left into C20 addition, scattered 1 and 2-light casements; to right into solar over service bay an original 3- light square mullioned window, a 2-light glazing bar dormer over hall, 2 C20 2-light dormers to left. Inserted ridge stack to right of centre has 2 conjoined hexagonal shafts. Right end is half hipped over an exposed single diamond mullioned opening and a 2-light casement. To rear a cross entry door and a restored 2-light diamond mullioned window opening. Altered lower service wing to rear right is clay lump or timber frame. Interior: 2 service doorways with chamfered surrounds, a hollow moulded 4-centred arched head with foliate carved spandrels, possibly reused; service bay stop chamfered axial binding beam. Hall has tension bracing in walls, traces of original 6-light square mullioned windows, open truss posts had shafts, inserted stop chamfered storey posts to a bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, stop chamfered joists; reused fireplace bressumer with hollow and roll moulds, Tudor flower brattishing, upper embattled brattishing. Solar end wall has reverse curved arched braces. Hall chamber arched bracing in front wall, open truss stop chamfered cambered tie beam, now cut, cruciform crown post, broached base, no cap, 4-centred arched braces to collar purlin, smoke blackened rafters. Parlour bays: frame is largely concealed, tension bracing in walling, a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, a 4-light diamond mullioned window to rear, closed truss crown post survives at original left end.

Listing NGR: TM0408075215