Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/10/2016

1430/0/10011

HANLEY CASTLE,
GILBERT'S END,
Brickwalls Farmhouse and Woodhall Barn

(Formerly known as: Brickwalls Farmhouse and attached barn)

22.10.01

II

Farmhouse and attached barn. C17; remodelled and extended C18; altered C19. Timber-framed with painted brick nogging; extended and partly rebuilt in brick [painted]. Clay plain tile roofs with gabled ends. Brick axial stack with yellow clay pots.
PLAN: 3-room plan C17 range with axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces heating central kitchen and parlour to south; north room is unheated. In C18 a 1-room plan range was built on the east side of the parlour, filling the gap between the house and the adjacent barn.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey 2-bay south front faced in brick with twin gables and moulded platband at first floor level; 3-light casements with glazing bars and doorway to right on ground floor, and 2-light casements on first floor. Left-hand [W] side, long range with exposed timber-framing, doorway on right and 2-light casement at centre with gabled dormer above. North gable end rebuilt in brick in C19; timber-framed east side enclosed within small C19 brick wing on right, later outshut at centre and C18 extension on left; on roof above a small C17 gable lighting stairs.
INTERIOR: Parlour to south with deeply chamfered cross-beam without stops and fireplace with late C19 chimneypiece. Kitchen at centre has deeply chamfered cross-beam without stops and large brick fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer with straight-cut stops. Smaller unheated north end room with chamfered axial beam with long convex stops. Staircase rising from kitchen beside axial stack has chamfered newel-post, moulded plank balustrade with moulded rail. Several C17 moulded plank doors; others later plain plank doors. Attic chambers ceiled. Tie-beam and collar trusses with queen-posts and V-struts. Straight tension-braces.
Timber-framed 3-bay barn attached to east side with brick nogging, partly weatherboarded and with corrugated-iron gable-ended roof; wall-framing complete except for east end wall; straight tension-braces, jowled posts; at west end original tie-beam and collar truss with queen-posts and V-struts; the braces below tie-beams of the other trusses have been removed and above replaced by later king-post trusses; stone flag floor.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668750

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)