Description

TM 37 NE WISSETT HALESWORTH ROAD

5/61 Wissett Hall
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- II

House. Early C17 core, with late Victorian enlargements by Herbert Groom.
Timber-framed, encased in red brick, mainly C19, but with some sections of
Tudor brick; the central range is jettied and tile-hung on the upper floor;
hipped plaintiled roofs. 2 storeys; complex plan. 8 chimney-stacks, some
internal, some set externally on side walls, in several variants of
traditional style: 3, on high shaped bases, have octagonal shafts and spurred
caps, the others have square shafts, some set diagonally, and attached
corbelled caps. Various 4- and 5-light casement windows, with arched heads to
lights and leaded panes in intersecting hexagonals and diamonds; some of the
ground-floor windows have transomes, and there is one square bay window. 2-
storey projecting porch, with a 5-light upper window and ai small 2-light
diamond-leaded fixed window on each side of the doorway. Wide segmental arch
to doorway, with triangular pediment and dentil cornice above, continued as a
hood-mould over the windows. Ledged and battened door with 2 leaves, and
applied pilaster strips. Linked to the north side of the house is a small 2-
storey early C20 circular tower by Louis Sarel (see also Spexhall Manor and
Fairstead Farmhouse, Spexhall) with a conical plaintiled roof surmounted by a
square open belfry containing one bell; both storeys have single-light fixed
windows with diamond-leaded panes. Early C20 timbered and panelled interior:
2 bays of the original C17 house, with plain exposed ceiling-joists are
visible. The ground floor windows on the porch and the dentil details
probably also be Sarel.

Listing NGR: TM3817678558

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635578

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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