Graham Hall Cottages

NUNNINGTON THE AVENUE SE 664790 (east side, off) 9/45 Graham Hall Cottages (formerly listed as The Almhouses) 14.7.55

• II

Originally 5 almshouses; now 2 dwellings and village hall. Late C17 with C20 alteration and extension. Coursed rubble stone with stone flag roof and brick stacks. H-plan; left cross wing truncated. 1-½-storey, 3-bay centre flanked by 1-storey, 2-bay ranges; 1-½-storey, 1-window gabled cross wings project at each end. All openings altered in C20. Central board door flanked by 2-light, small-pane casements. Similar window in gabled dormer above. Painted timber lintels to all openings. Flanking ranges have 2- light casements with painted timber lintels, one in left range, 2 on right. Left cross wing: return wall has board door to right of blocked doorway with gabled doorhood on renewed brackets. 30-pane sash with stone sill and painted keyed wedge lintel in gable end, with owl-hole above. Right cross wing: two 4-pane sashes with painted timber lintels in return wall. Gable end repeats left cross-wing gable, but with 4-pane sash. Finials to all gables. End stacks to centre and left- and right-of-centre stacks to flanking ranges. Interior: 3-part collar trusses on corbels, similar to those in Nunnington Hall (qv), exposed in centre portion and right flanking range. Right cross wing, now village hall, retains plain Tudor-arched fireplace.

Listing NGR: SE6696779334