Description

TL 85 NW HAWSTEAD BULL LANE
Pinford End

4/60 Hammonds
(Formerly listed as Hammond's
14.7.55 Farmhouse under General)

II

House, formerly farmhouse; mid C15 with mid C16 and C17 alterations. 3-cell
open hall-house; 1 1/2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rendered.
Thatched roof with eyebrow casement dormers and axial chimneys of red brick.
Mainly C20 casements with leaded lights, also a C15 8-light diamond-mullioned
window to hall, and mid C16 moulded mullioned windows to right-hand parlour and
to chamber above. C15 4-centred arched entrance doorway with oak plank door;
plaintiled C20 gabled canopy on brackets. A 2-bay smoke-blackened open hall of
exceptional timber scantlings, with crown-post roof; the open truss with
cambered tie-beam, unchamfered arch-braces, square crownpost having moulded
capital and base and 4 arch-braces. The two storied service and solar ends
were both originally half-hipped and have massive lodged 1st floor joists. In
the cross-passage are 2 arched doorways into service rooms and evidence for an
adjacent staircase doorway. The right-hand parlour block with internal chimney
added mid C16; at the same time 1st floor inserted into hall and open
fireplace built, backing onto cross-passage. A further bay added to left hand
end late C17 or early C18, reusing members from an older building.

Listing NGR: TL8456159028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568433

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)