Old Caring

LEEDS CARING ROAD TQ 85 SW (south-west side)

3/83 Old Caring GV II House. Cl5 or possibly very late C14, with C16 and C19 additions and alterations. Timber framed with rendered infilling to rear elevation. Front elevation to a lane; stone with brick dressings to ground floor of left section, first floor rendered. Right section painted brick. Wealden, parallel to Caring Road, of which one bay of a 2-bay open hall remains; truncating wall to right forms left section of present front elevation. Recess filled out in C16 to form continuous jetty. Separately framed storeyed bay to left end of Wealden, with a left rear return wing, also with a continuous jetty. Later additions in 2 stages (one C19) filling in the L to form a rectangular block with right side partly recessed. Present front elevation: 2 storeys, in 2 sections, that to right projecting slightly forwards except for recess to right end. Left section has broad gable with plain bargeboards, right has half hip. 3 small casements to attic of left section and one 2-light casement to first floor, 2 C19 casements to first floor of right section, and one to recessed part of right section. Ribbed door to left end. Present rear elevation (former left return wing): ground floor clad in red brick in Flemish bond, first floor broadly- spaced studding, with tension braces-to right end. Large projecting stone stack to right end (storeyed end of Wealden), with red brick flue and 3 bee-boles. Interior, tall, slender octagonal crown post with plain chamfer-stopped base on axial tie-beam, to storeyed end of Wealden. Hall has large posts and heavy plain cambered arch-braced central tie-beam (immediately inside present gable wall). Remains of brattished moulded end of hall beam. C16 inserted floor with moulded axial beam. Late C16 stone fireplace to storeyed end of hall with moulded jambs, 4-centred arch with hollow spandrels, and cambered lintel. Remains of original door in rear wall of hall. Interior only partly inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ8056054061