Description

CREETING ST. PETER MILL LANE
TM 05 NE
4/74 Creeting Hall
-
9-12-55
- II*

Former manor house, now subdivided into two dwellings, of which one is a
farmhouse. Mid C16 with alterations of C17 and c.1828. A large 3-cell house,
both end cells being of cross-wing form. 2 storeys. Ground storey walls are
of C16 red brick with diaperwork in burnt headers. Upper storey walling
timber-framed and plastered with some early C19 cable-pattern pargetting. The
garden elevation was formerly the entrance front; both cross-wings are jettied
on this side at 1st floor, with heavily moulded fascia-bressumers. At the
rear of the parlour wing is exposed close studding; the gable tie-beam is
jettied on brackets and moulded. Plaintiled roofs (the hipped cross-wings
were gabled until C19). An axial c.1600 chimney of red brick has a sawtooth
shaft; another at the rear rises from a brick gable, with a group of 3
octagonal shafts. At 1st storey are C19 small-pane sashes and at ground
storey various C19 and C20 casements, some with segmental brick heads. In the
parlour wing is an original window with a flat splayed brick head, and wooden
cavetto-moulded mullions in a subframe. In the rear re-entrant angles of both
cross-wings are original lean-to roofed staircase towers. Between them is a
C19 brick lean-to outshut, scratch-dated "EW 1828"; small-pane sashes and a
C20 panelled entrance door. Many good interior features: a rear cross-passage
entrance doorway, moulded and formerly with an arched head; other internal
doorways also moulded, and some with arched heads. Moulded floor beams over
hall and parlour, the former with roll-and-ogee, the latter double-chamfered.
High quality close-studding, but also some later box-framed partitioning with
very large panels. Two newel staircases. Good wind-braced butt-purlin roof;
but unusually, with an intergral section of crownpost roofing. Open
fireplaces have depressed arches carved from the soffits of deep cambered
lintels. Some early C17 panelling, and a little bolection-moulded joinery of
c.1700.

Listing NGR: TM0788856850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539865

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)