Description

WAKES COLNE CREPPING HALL ROAD
1.
5214
Crepping Hall
TL 92 NW 7/4 23.6.52
GV
2.
Late C12, originally an open hall with aisles of which two and a half bays remain
with many additions. Timber framed and plastered. The hall range has 3 hornless,
south-pane sashes on the first storey and one similar with margin sashes central
to ground storey, with sashes to left and right. Front door in return of crosswing
to west, with broken dentilled pediment on consoles. Roofs all pegtiled and
ridged and gabled except for crosswing which has been converted to hip roof.
A crosswing was added at the west end circa 1512 which has evidence for an original
attic floor with haunched tenons. Both hall and crosswing have crown post roofs,
the former straight side braced, the latter curved edge-braced. The hall roof
is heavily sooted. Hall tie beam steeply cambered, first floor an Elizabethan
intrusion. On the ground floor one arched oak doorway of the circa 1314.

Listing NGR: TL9089828451

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536718

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