Hall Farmhouse

SU 63 NE BENTWORTH HIGH STREET

7/7 Hall Farmhouse 31/07/63 (formerly listed as Hall Farm) GV II*

House. C14, C17, and early C19. Rendered walls and tiled roof. A medieval hall with 2-storeyed cross wings and porch, with modifications of the C17 and early C19. The front (north-west) has the wide gables of the wings, the narrower gable of the porch (2-storeyed) and a gable now in front of the middle (hall) section; 2 storeys, 2.1.1 above 1.2.1 windows. Roughcast on thick flint-walled structure); 2 small stone windows and the stone frame of a larger (C17) window, some cambered openings. Sashes and casements, the doorway is Gothic stone arch, with a C20 boarded door and narrow side windows, and above it is a shield with armorial devices. The rear elevation has exposed flint walls with brick dressings, (to the rear of the hipped roofed west wing and outshot to the former hall), the east wing gable being roughcast with a coupled stone-framed upper light. The west elevation (the side of the west wing) has a stone-framed upper window and a massive attached tapered stack. The east elevation has early C19 sashes and a C20 ½-glazed door within a wide tile roofed open porch. The inner door to the front porch is a medieval stone arch. The building is said to have been constructed by John of Bynteworth, and was used as a manor court.