Description

TR 04 SE BRABOURNE WEEKES LANE
(east side)

4/38 The Hall
(formerly listed
13.10. 52 as The Limes)

GV II*

House. C17 or earlier, rebuilt early C18. Timber framed and clad
with red and blue brick with red brick dressings. Plain tiled roof.
Two storeys, attic and basement on plinth of red brick and ragstone.
Paired modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with 2 gabled dormers
(and to right return) and 2 stacks to end left. Regular fenestration
of 5 glazing bar sashes on first floor and 4 on ground floor, with 4
to basement in segmentally headed surrounds. Central door of 6 raised
and fielded panels, the top 2 glazed, with keyed semi-circular fanlight.
Doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns, triglyph frieze and open pediment,
a late C20 restoration. The cladding of the rear wings, although in
similar style and materials, is of a different date. Two rear wings
with enclosed court between (with same C17 brickwork, casement window
and trap-door reported). Interior: interior of roof area reported
arranged in cubicles, either for smuggled goods, or because the house
was used as a convalescent. home for London plaque victims (! Igglesden
10, 1913). Heavily timbered and ornamented interior reported. Fine
early C18 dog leg and half-landing stair with barley-sugar turned
balusters on open string, moulded rail and dado panelling. (See
Igglesden, 10, 1913, p.22).

Listing NGR: TR0884042546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556499

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)