Description

ALDHAM BROOK ROAD
1.
5214
Aldham Hall
TL 92 SW 11/2 23.6.52
II*
2.
Medieval House built on an attenuated Z-plan containing Elizabethan details and
C14 framed floors with barefaced soffit-tenons. Timber framed and plastered
with ridged and gabled roof peg-tiled. The north front comprises 2 ranges in
line with a break in the roof height and a red brick chimney stack central to
each range. The stack at the south-west having 2 octagonal shafts. The south-west
range has 2 gabled dormers and a central early C17 porch with carved vergeboards
and finial. Windows sets of modern casements with old ovolo mullions between.
Inside very good Elizabethan panelling and fireplace with pilastered overmantle
all of pine. A semi-hexagonal tie-beam exists in the west wing, as a result
of a C16 conversion to 2 storeys. Remains of moat. (RCHM 2).

Listing NGR: TL9184924860

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545678

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