Description

SINGLETON (off) MAINS LANE
SD 34 SE
1/65 Mains Hall
9.6.67 (formerly listed as Mains Hall
(including moat, well, barn
and dovecote))

GV II

Manor house, perhaps originally late C16, remodelled in C17, altered in
C18, and subsequently; now hotel. White-painted rendered brick, slate
roof. Now very irregular plan: 2-room hall range flanked by short
projecting gabled bays, with large rear extension to the centre and various
outshuts and additions. Formerly 3 storeys, reduced to 2 storeys in C18.
Front has doorway in centre, 4 windows at ground floor and 5 above, one
window on each floor of the left gable and 2 on each floor of the right,
all of these windows modern vertical rectangular casements with
diamond-leaded glazing. Rear wall has traces of 3 labels to former brick
mullion windows, and there is a 2-light brick mullion window in the apex of
has two 1/4-round moulded beams with large cyma stops, ex situ panelling in
C17 style; former kitchen (now bar) to rear of hall has stopped
chamfered beams and similar bressumer; staircase with turned balusters,
panelled newel posts, broad handrail; roof of 4 collar trusses with
cambered collars, 2 pairs of purlins windbraced above and below (some
braces missing), 2nd and 4th trusses have wattle and daub infill and
doorways with chamfered jambs (a curiosity of the roof is that the
tie-beams appear to rest on wall plates set about one metre from the walls,
which are clearly re-used, having joist housings on the upper edges).

Listing NGR: SD3701940516

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327385

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)