Pykards Hall

TL 85 NW REDE HAMKEDEN ROAD

5/114 Pykards Hall

II

House, mid-C15 with alterations of mid C16, late C17 and c.1970 1½ storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rendered, partly encased in painted brick. Plaintiled roof with gabled casement dormers, gable and axial chimneys of red brick. C20 casements. C20 gabled plaintiled entrance porch with boarded door. A mid-C15 3-cell open hall house, greatly altered; hall of 2 bays of 10' and 14'. Smoke-blackened crown-post roof almost complete. Damaged open truss has part of steeply-cambered tie-beam with moulded soffit; a bowtel within great casement and an ogee; arch-braces concealed or missing; octagonal crownpost, without mouldings, but with 4-way archbraces, and in addition, rising braces from the tie-beam. The closed trusses at each end have rising braces to crown- studs. Over the parlour end, now altered or rebuilt, remains of a hipped end with smoke-gablet. One cross-passage entrance doorway with 4-centred head survives, now opening into early C18 wing of 1 bay. First floor inserted into hall and chimney built backing onto cross-passage C16. Parlour end extended southwards late C17, with further 2-cell cross-wing having central chimney-bay and clasped purlin roof. The C15 service end demolished and rebuilt longer, late C17 or early C18. Altered c.1970.

Listing NGR: TL8045755434