Description

MELLIS THE COMMON (NORTH WEST
TM 07 SE
SIDE)
3/20 Hall Farm House (formerly
29.7.55 listed as Mellis Hall and
Barn, Mellis Green)

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid to late C16, extended C17, altered and extended C19. Timber
frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs. An L on plan with broad 2
cells of cross passage, hall and parlour; service wing to rear. 2 storeys and
attic. Possibly jettied to front originally. Central entrance: 6 panelled
door, doorcase with fluted pilasters, roundels to open pediment. Parlour to
left has ground floor 3-light and first floor 2-light glazing bar casements,
hall to right has 3 and 4-light glazing bar casements, all C19 with
hoodboards. Boxed eaves. Left gable end first floor 3-light casement,
pentice board to attic with small casement, exposed plates and purlins. Right
gable end external stack in a c19 1 storey 1 bay addition with entrance
towards main range, 6-panelled door in an open porch with outer fluted jambs,
pedimental head, architraved 4-light glazing bar casement, hipped roof. Main
range to rear has a recessed boarded door opposite front door, 2 and 3-light
casements, an inserted stack in parlour on rear roof slope. Service wing
extends to rear right: lower ridge and eaves, multiform ridge stack towards
front, inner boarded door and 3-light C19 casements, outer half glazed door,
scattered casements, rear gable end exposed plates and purlins. Interior:
hall has a double roll moulded axial binding beam, parlour has wave moulded
joists, service wing has stop chamfered binding beams, otherwise frame
concealed and not inspected (said to have some panelling). A moated site.
(East Anglian Miscellany, 1913, pp.63-70).

Listing NGR: TM0913674168

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477025

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