Description

SU 5258 KINGSCLERE SWAN STREET
SU 5259
13/58
No 20

II*

Late C14, C16, C18. A timber-framed 2-bay medieval hall, with a 2-bay cross-wing
(solar above buttery) at the north side and a bay to the south side (now modern). The
front (east) of the last date lies forward of the frame, with 2 storeys, 4 windows.
Tile roof, hipped with lowered eaves at each end, brick dentil eaves. Painted
brickwork in Flemish bond, cambered ground floor openings, cement plinth. Casements,
half-glazed door in a solid frame, with a moulded canopy on brckets. At the south
side, the ground-floor wallng has been replaced by a modern section on either side of
a garage entrance. Within, there is an almost complete and massive frame, the large
beam above the centre of the hall has fragmentary remains of wide moulded arch braces
and at the centre is a carved head; above it is an arch-braced collar; part of the
arched frame of a doorway to the buttery remains. A massive chimney-breast was
inserted at the time of making the first floor (of wide boards) within the hall. At
the rear is a cast iron Gothic casement to an upper floor, and a modern rear
extension.

Listing NGR: SU5247358552

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532500

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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