Black Charles

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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5280 SEAL UNDERRIVER

Black Charles TQ 5552 26/1090 10.9.54.

II* GV

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Restored late mediaeval hall house, witn later C16 chimney and ceiling. 2 storeys and attic, irregular windows. High pitched tiled roof. Moulded wood eaves cornice. One gabled dormer. Tile hung 1st floor. Brick ground floor with stone plinth. Leased casement windows. Projecting 2-storey porch. Left extension formerly an outbuilding. Right extension, probably of C17, with random stone ground floor, tile hanging above. Sun assurance sign on eaves cornice.

Inside mugh panelling: imported linenfold in left extension, plain Elizabethan in central room, Queen Anne period elsewhere. Much exposed timber including remains of screens passage; and carved crown post. Many assembly marks on timbers.

Restored inglenook. Former jettied right end, with C16 window, vmsible inside C17 extension. Carved figure, possibly representing a thresher, on bay post in entrance hall.

Black Charles, Outbuilding and Wall form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5552052406

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0784 IOE Records taken by Ron Garvey; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Ron Garvey. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project