Great Pix Hall

Great Pix Hall is a house dating from the 15th century or earlier, with alterations and extensions from the mid to late 16th century and re-fenestration in the mid 19th century. The building is timber framed and tile hung, with some exposed red brick and a sandstone base. It has plain tiled roofs. It is a hall house with an added rear wing.

The two-storied main range has a hipped roof to the left, featuring a large projecting brick stack in irregular bond at the end. There’s a rendered and moulded stack cluster at the end to the right. The front has three large casements on the first floor and two reaching to ground level, with a further casement in the centre. A six-panel door with a moulded surround and flat hood on paired modillions is centrally positioned to the right. The left return has two stories, a central stack, and three wooden casements on each floor. There are boarded and glazed doors and an outshot section. The current main entry is a boarded door in the catslide rear of this wing.

Inside the front range, the roof is soot blackened with inserted clasped purlins. The first-floor joists are double-wave moulded, reset at varying heights as wall plates and elsewhere, in conjunction with the main beams. A four-centred arched doorway has been reset. The end stack on the right is set within a double-framed bay, featuring a moulded inglenook bressummer, indicative of alterations in the 16th century and shortly after.

The rear wing has a jowled Queen-post roof with wind bracing and stop-chamfered beams throughout. An inglenook contains a short post to the spine beam, bearing a carved shield. Lozenge-set mullioned windows are found within the house, and in the re-entrant angle of the two wings on the first floor, a 16th-century moulded oriel survives. The corner pieces and sidelights retain moulded mullions and transoms; the main window was replaced in the 19th century.