Kilburn Hall

KILBURN HIGH AND LOW LOW KILBURN SE 5179 (east side) 8/25 Kilburn Hall (formerly listed as Old 1.5.52 Hall) GV II House. Mid-late C17, wing largely C18; C19 and C20 alterations. C18 coursed squared herringbone-tooled stone, partly rendered; pantile roofs. L-shaped, gable of earlier range facing road with C18 range set back on left. 2 storeys, earlier range with attic and six first floor windows, C18 range with four first floor windows. South front (earlier range): mostly rendered with quoins raised on left. Plinth. Central 6-panel door. Double-chamfered mullion windows: on left of door a cross window with end of iron tie-rod to left, on right of door wider (formerly with paired cross window), both under hoodmoulds, to far right a single transomed light; on first floor single transomed lights to far right (blocked) and above door, this latter with 2 cross windows to either side, the inner ones blocked. At eaves, a timber plate supporting cross-timbers with brick infill between them and another plate above supporting rafters. Shaped kneelers, left one replaced, and ashlar coping, renewed on left. Renewed central brick ridge stack. Left (west) gable of this range is rendered, with a restored ground-floor 3-light transomed window with hoodmould and coat of arms above and a blocked window to each upper floor. Rear (north side) of this range has the 2 right bays set back and rendered with a blocked window to each floor, that on ground floor under hoodmould, and on the left at first floor a blocked, transomed, single light. C18 range west side: 4 bays. The 3 left bays have plinth, central 6-panel door in rusticated surround flanked by unequally-hung 12-pane sashes with projecting sills and stone lintels and 3 similar windows above (without lintels). The main feature, in 4th bay, is a C17 studded boarded and panelled round-arched door in architrave with imposts, rusticated arch with raised decorative keystone and cornice; above it is a 2-light 12-pane side-sliding sash which breaks the eaves. Rear (east side) of this range has, inter alia: on left, a board door in quoined surround with massive chevron- tooled lintel and small window in plain stone surround to its left; on right, either side of a truncated external stack, single-light double-chamfered windows, both blocked and the right one broken into by a later 2-light 16-pane side-sliding sash; the ends of 2 iron tie-rods at ground floor lintel level; above left-hand door a blocked window having piece of a reused hoodmould for sill, and similar sills to other first floor windows; eaves band. Interior: not inspected, but former list description notes that the earlier, south, range has two good C17 panelled rooms on the first floor and the later range moulded ceiling beams on ground floor.

Listing NGR: SE5138679451