Old Hall

SO 71 SE HARDWICKE CHURCH LANE (west side) 4/75 Old Hall

10.1.55 II

Two houses in row. C14; extended in C16; C19 alterations. Restored in C20 by C.D. Carus-Wilson. Timber-framed; part extended and rebuilt in brick; C20 brick chimneys; stone slate roof. Single-storey with attic; 3-bay; extended to north; single-storey wing at north east corner. Front: square framing on mixed brick and lias plinth; C20 brick infill to panels; plank door to original house; altered scattered casements; 3 C20 timber-framed gabled dormers; brick-built wing to right with gable end chimney. South end: half-hipped and square-framed with jowled corner posts; framed-up casements. West side: small-framed with scattered casements of C19 and C20; 2 dormers, 1 gabled, 1 raking; plank door to right. North end: rebuilt gable end in brick with projecting brick chimney stack; C20 casements. Interior of original house has 3 cruck frames; 1 visible in attic room is of very thin section and chamfered; lower part of arched- brace to collar above ceiling also chamfered, possibly the dividing bay of an open hall. Cross passage inserted in C16. (N.W.Alcock, Cruck Construction: an Introduction and Catalogue, 1981 C.R. Elrington, 'Hardwicke' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp.178-188; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)

Listing NGR: SO7961812862