Poulters Hall

Poulters Hall is a house that was formerly cottages, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, and was restored in 1981-1982. It features a timber-framed structure with rendered infilling and a plain tile roof. The building consists of three timber-framed bays and a stack bay, possibly following a lobby-entry plan. It has two storeys and an attic, with close-studded framing that has been altered. Each end of the building has a tension brace, and there is a lower midrail in the stack bay and the bay to its left. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with gablets. There is a brick ridge stack located to the right of the center, along with slender projecting brick stacks at the gable ends. The fenestration is irregular, featuring three three-light casements—two on the left and one on the right of the stack. A blocked four-light diamond mullion window is located on the first floor at the right end of the left bay. There is a boarded door on the right end of the left bay and a blocked door beneath the stack. The rear has a weatherboarded lean-to. Inside, the framing is exposed, with a chamfered axial beam and unchamfered joists in the central room, and broader axial joists in the left end room. The principal posts have gunstock jowls. The roof structure includes clasped purlins with diminishing principal rafters and vertical queen struts supporting cambered collars. The central room features a low brick fireplace with a chamfered bressumer, although the stack has likely been largely rebuilt.