Hall Farmhouse

TL 87 SW LACKFORD BURY ROAD

2/67 Hall Farmhouse 14.7.55 (formerly listed as Hall Farm Cottages) II

Farmhouse, mid/late C16, timber framed, encased in red brick early C19. Clay plain-tiled roof. C19 casement windows and 2 panelled entrance doors with flat canopies. At the north east end, a gable and massive chimney stack; Barnack limestone ashlar up to eaves level ; red C16 brickwork with dark diaperwork headers and crow-stepped parapets to both gable and stack; a C15 limestone quatrefoiled circle with central face inset. three attached flattened-hexagon shafts. on the north-west elevation a similar gable and stack but with stone at quoins only; formerly with 3 circular detached chimney shafts with raised diamond and corkscrew moulding. An axial chimney stack between hall and parlour has three square diagonally set attached flues. A small C17 rear wing in thin pink/grey gault bricks, much altered, has traces of 2 large hood- moulded windows. Wide parlour fire place has Barnack stone jambs with engaged shafts. Similar chamber fireplace above with carved shaft bases and moulded square plinths; the stone is salvaged from a C12 building, perhaps after the Dissolution.

Listing NGR: TL8014270618