Wierton Hall

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA EAST HALL HILL TQ 74 NE (North-East side)

2/37 Wierton Hall

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16, with later C16, early C17 and C18 additions and alterations and early-to-mid C19 facade. Timber framed, clad with channelled render. Plain tile roof. Late C16 T-plan lobby-entry house, with front range of 2 1/2 timber-framed bays and central stack bay; rear wing of 2 timber-framed bays with sides running back from principal posts to left side of stack bay and to right side of half bay to right of stack bay. Later C16 bay added at right-angles to left side of rear bay of wing. Early C17 bay infilling gap between added bay and left bay of front range. C18 bay infilling angle between right bay of front range and first bay of rear wing, making house virtually rectangular. 2 storeys on rendered plinth. Hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack slightly to left of centre. Regular 3-window front of two 2-light mullioned sashes (each sash of 2 panes, without horns), and central 2-pane sash. Similar windows to ground floor. All windows with blind boxes. Central panelled door with rectangular fanlight, under open flat-roofed Doric porch with moulded cornice. Central rear wing, with lower ridge, jettied gable and gable end stack;8-light mullioned window to gable. Added rear bay with even lower ridge, hipped to left. C17 infilling with steeply-pitched hipped roof same height as front range, and with ridge continued across to hipped C18 infilling to right. Interior: exposed framing. Chamfered stone fireplace with wooden bressumer to each side of stack on ground floor, and smaller stone fireplace with 4-centred arched head to first floor to left. Small stone fireplace with chamfered jambs and bressumer to closet in front of stack. Bressumer with spit machine marks to end stack of wing. Stairwell within centre of first bay of rear wing, with C17 newel surviving in attic. Boarded horizontally-sliding shutter to C16 left addition. Early-to-mid C19 panelled vertically-sliding shutters to front windows. Clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, and windbraces, to front range and rear wing. Formerly known as Wierton Hall Farm.

Listing NGR: TQ7843149909