Description

TQ 64 NW CAPEL TUDELEY HALE

1/290 Hale Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C18 (including a fragment of C17 brickwork) with late C19 and
circa 1980 modernisations. Flemish bond red brick and first floor of front
block is plastered timber-framing. Part of the north wall of the rear block
is probably C17 English bond brick including burnt headers. Brick stacks and
chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: L-plan house. The main block faces east south east, say east. It has
a 2-room plan which has been somewhat altered. Direct entry into the larger
left (south) room which has a large projecting gable-end stack, apparently the
only original fireplace. Right room however now has secondary rear lateral
stack. One-room plan rear service block projects at right angles to rear of
left end.

House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and a cellar under the front
left room.

Exterior: Symmetrical 2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars.
Central doorway has a C19 4-panel door in a late C19 timber-framed gabled
porch with waney bargeboards. Tall mansard roof is gable-ended and contains 2
front flat-roofed dormer windows.

Interior: Shows mostly the result of the late C19 and C20 modernisations. No
earlier features are exposed. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ6214846049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545235

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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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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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)