Description

COUNTISBURY HALL HILL
SS 74 NE
4/35 Hall Farmhouse and adjoining
- shippon to east
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C16, remodelled in the early to mid C17, and
kitchen range added in the early to mid - C18 and further remodelled in the late
C18. Some alterations and minor additions of the late C19. Painted coursed stone
rubble, rendered to front. Some cob in kitchen wing. Gable-ended Welsh slate roof,
with separate hipped slate roof over kitchen range.
Plan and development: C16 3-room-and-through-passage house, facing south. Open
hall house, formerly open to the roof from end to end, probably with low partitions.
Floored in stages, that over the inner room jettied into the hall. Hall probably
floored last, although the lateral (formerly external) stone stack to the rear might
be slightly earlier. Integral end stack to inner room and lateral stack to rear of
lower room. Parallel kitchen range added to rear of hall and inner room in the
early C18, sharing hall stack. Staircase inserted in wide through-passage in the
late C18, and eaves possibly raised at the same time. C19 gabled dairy to rear of
lower room and lean-to porch over rear entrance, possibly the remains of a larger
lean-to. 2 storeys.
Exterior: asymmetrical but regular 4-window south front; late C18 small-paned 2-
light wooden casements. Late C20 glazed door to right with C20 segmental tympanum.
Late C20 French casements at left-hand end of front. Straight masonry joints in
left-hand gable end indicate former roof line.
Rear: nail-studded boarded rear door to through-passage, probably relocated in
porch. First-floor 3-light wooden casement above door. Kitchen range and pair of
first-floor 2-light wooden casements and one ground floor 2-light wooden casement.
Interior: C16 4-bay roof; 3 smoke-blackened C16 trusses, possibly jointed crucks
(see reused jointed timber in lower room fireplace), with notched mortice and
tenoned apices and trenches for former diagonally set ridge piece and trenched
purlins. Late C19 roof construction above C16 trusses. C18 4-bay roof over kitchen
range consisting of trusses with principals (including hip principals) and trenched
purlins. Hall has C17 chamfered cross beam with scroll stops, and C20 fireplace to
rear, probably in front of earlier fireplace. Internal jetty to left with chamfered
and stopped bressumer resting on 3 projecting beams with chamfered corners and ends.
Inner room has chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. Lower end room has two
ceiling levels and pair of late C18 square-headed niches with shaped shelves and
corner cupboards with raised-and-fielded panelled doors. Pegged jointed timber
reused as mantelshelf in late C20 fireplace; owner (July 1987) reports that it was
taken out of the foot of the north principal of the right-hand roof truss,
suggesting that the trusses are side-pegged jointed crucks. Late C18 internal
remodelling throughout house including doors of 4 raised and fielded panels and
pairs of internal window shutters to ground-floor rooms, each shutter with 2 raised
and fielded panels. Late C18 staircase inserted in cross passage with stick
balusters to landing and tapered square-beaded newels with acorn finials, foot of
stairs and passageway to left formerly with doors. Large kitchen fireplace with
stone jambs, wooden lintel and probably C19 chamfered and stopped surround. C18
winder stair rising from kitchen; old boarded door to cupboard underneath with H-L
hinges.
Shippon: adjoining to east. Probably late C18 or early C19. Coursed sandstone
rubble with slate roof. 1 storey and loft. Central boarded loft door, ground-floor
window with wooden lintel, and small vent to left. Half-height boarded door to left
with wooden lintel. Door and window in right-hand gable end, both with wooden
lintels. Boarded door to rear too. Interior with cross beams for loft (floor
removed at time of survey - July 1987) and 2 trusses with straight principals and
collars.

Listing NGR: SS7712948372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508027

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)