Description

SKEEBY RICHMOND ROAD
NZ 10 SE (north side)

4/123 No 19 (Halfe Hill House)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 with late C18 refenestration. Rubble, stone
slate and pantile roof. 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Windows have
cemented lintels, ashlar sills and renewed sash frames. Below third first-
floor window, board door with wrought-iron strap hinges in ashlar
architrave. To its right, 4-pane light vent. On first floor, above, a sash
window with glazing bars. In first and second bays, 20-pane sash windows.
In bay 4, sash windows with glazing bars. Between first and second bays,
moulded rainwater hopper and lead pipe. Stone slates to lower courses of
roof, pantiles above. Raised verges. Brick stacks between first and second
bays and at end right. Interior: in ground-floor room to left of door, 2
very large first-floor beams, roughly chamfered but not stopped, 1 probably
formed ingle as there is a salt box and a blocked fire window. In first-
floor room to extreme left, fragment of older, lower roof-truss, perhaps a
concave wind brace and sprocket, or a fragment of a cruck blade.

Listing NGR: NZ1988402542

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588708

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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