Description

WACKERFIELD WACKERFIELD
NZ 12 SE
10/220 No. 1
(The Old Hall)

II

House, at one time 2 houses. Late C17. Limewashed rubble with rubble plinth
and painted ashlar dressings: roof pantiled with 2 rows of stone flags at eaves,
stone gable coping and stone chimneys. Hearth passage plan with right rear
stair wing. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the third wider. Renewed door in architrave
with frieze and cornice in second bay; flat stone lintels and projecting stone
sills to sashes of late C19 type. Roof has cyma reversa moulded kneelers,
coping ends removed; 2 banded ridge chimneys flanking door. Rear gabled stair
wing has roof in similar style; pent porch addition in angle with house.
Original rear door opposite front door has tongue-stopped chamfered surround,
now within rear porch.

Interior: several boarded 2-panel doors and ledged boarded doors; stone fire
arch in third bay ground floor room obscured by C20 boarding; open-well newel
stair has flat-topped handrail, with grip mould on outer edge, on splat
balusters and moulded close string, with low pyramidal caps and pendants to
some newels. Broad-chamfered beam in third bay, underdrawn and boxed in other
bays.

Listing NGR: NZ1501022418

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608517

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings 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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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)