Description

TF 91 NE BEETLEY CHURCH ROAD
(north west side)

3/2 Old Hall
4/12/51

- II

Farmhouse. C16 and later. Timber frame faced with colourwashed brick. Brick
porch and pantile roofs: Southern half of house probably C16: heightened,
widened and re-roofed in C17 to be in line with contemporary extension. 2
storeys with attics. Facade with central 2-storey porch of c.1700 with a
3-centred, ovolo-moulded, arched entrance, an ovolo-moulded platband and an
original first floor 3-light mullion and transom window beneath a skewback
arch with 3-centred soffit. Fine curvilinear gable with moulded brick finial.
Oval medallion in gable and a pair of oval side windows. Varied fenestration
with 2 C18 3-light mullion windows and similar window with transom to ground
floor. Other facade windows C19 and C20. One blocked 3-light diamond mullion
window in north gable. 2 blocked ovolo-moulded mullion windows to west.
Central axial stack with rebuilt angled shafts. Later extension to rear.
Interior. Timber frame largely intact supporting a butt-purlin roof with
collars and wind bracing. Original winding stair to north gable-end. Some
C17 plank doors; one with cock's head hinges. One fireplace with an early
C18 bolection moulded surround. The heightening and widening of the original
house realised by the use of large curved brackets visible from within later
lean-to extension.

Listing NGR: TF9711318868

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26344151

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Staffordshire (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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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas