Description

QUENIBOROUGH
SK 61 SW COPPICE LANE (East Side)
3/45 The Old Hall
1.6.66
II*
Large house 1675-6. Brick on cobble plinth with Swithland slate roof. Originally
an H-plan house, but now lacking the front right-hand wing, and with a central
wing added to the front elevation in the C19. 2 storeys with attics, left hand
gabled wing with 8-light wood mullioned and transomed windows to ground and
1st floors, 2-light casement in attic. Dated in gable apex, 1676 with initials
B over T.E. Adjoining this, and advanced slightly, is the later gabled wing,
also with wood mullioned and transomed windows. Recessed to its right one bay
of the original central section contains a 6-light mullioned and transomed
window to the ground floor, 4-lights above. Refronted gable replacing former
wing to right with door in wood architrave wood mullioned and transomed window
above. Decorative cyma moulded brick bands form string course and arches over
ground and 1st floor windows in the original sections of the facade, and are
then continuous across side and rear of the house. Massive brick central stacks,
and on end gable. Original H-plan retained on rear elevation. Symetrical outer
gables with decorative brick bands rising over 4-light mullioned and transomed
windows on ground and 1st floors, and forming hoodmould to attic-window. Central
section recessed but also gabled, 2 decorative brick arches to each floor,
those on ground floor unrelated to the single large mullioned and transomed
window. Doorway to right. Date in right hand gable apex, 1675 with initials
B over T.E. Interior has various beamed rooms, 1 with inglenook and 2 original
newel staircases with turned balusters. Massive roof timbers with windbraces
etc. Lower service wing projects to left of front elevation, joined to the
main house by a C19 addition, but itself probably late C17 or early C18. Brick,
with Swithland slate roof. Former stables to left with 3 partially blocked
doors and 3 gabled dormers in the roof. Coped gable to right, then main range.
3 2-light casement windows, only 1 original, with segmentally arched brick
head. Door with brick arched head and a wide shallow blank arch to its right
at ground level. 1 other original window and 1 insertion. 3 dormers above.
Moulded brick eaves. 1 curved principal roof truss visible within. The house
may incorporate elements of an earlier house where Prince Rupert stayed in
1642, during the Civil war.

Listing NGR: SK6474612395

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534112

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey