Robert Hall Farmhouse and Farm Building Adjoining to East in Same Range

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SD 66 NW TATHAM

2/93 Robert Hall Farmhouse and farm 4-10-1967 buildinq adjoining to east in same range - II*

House and barn, late C16th with early C17th additions. Main, C16th, range altered late C19th when the eastern part of the house was converted into a barn. Sandstone rubble with steep slate roof. 2 storeys. Right-hand part of north facade originally had wooden-mullioned windows. 2 external timber lintels for these remain on the ground floor and one on the 1st floor. The left-hand opening is now blocked and the right-hand one has a modern window with plain reveals. The 1st floor window is partly blocked. To the right on the 1st floor is a 4-light mullioned window with hood. To the left, above the door, is a sashed window with glazing bars and plain stone surround. The door, originally to a cross-passage, has a chamfered surround with pointed arch. At the left the barn wall has been mainly re-faced. The wide entrance has plain reveals and a timber lintel. Above is re-set a cartouche with the Cansfield arms. To the left the wall is covered by a modern lean-to. To the right a chimney breast projects at 1st floor level on stone corbels. It is now truncated at eaves level. The left-hand gable has had its chimney cap removed. The right-hand gable chimney, which served the kitchen, has a massive external stack. The present house is at the left of the rear wall. The left-hand bay has a 3-light chamfered mullioned window on the ground floor and a 1st floor window with stone surround within an earlier opening. At the right on the 1st floor is a 3-light mullioned window with hood. Below is a window with plain reveals. At the right is a blocked doorway, originally to a cross passage, now containing a window. To the right the barn has several blocked openings. A large chimney stack with offsets projects forwards. To its right is a stair turret, probably an early Cl7th addition and now under a lean-to roof. It has blocked mullioned and transomed windows. To the right on each floor there is a blocked window, each with mullions of a different type. Against the western gable there is a lower wing of early c17th date adjoining at an acute angle. It has chamfered and hollow-chamfered mullioned windows. On the ground floor its east wall has one of one light to the left of the door and one of 2 lights to the right. On the 1st floor there are windows of 3 lights with hood, a similar one with one mullion removed, and a 2-light window without hood. The door has plain reveals. Chimney on right-hand gable. The west wall of this wing has 3 2-light windows on the ground floor, 3 of 3 lights with hoods on the 1st floor, and a window with plain reveals at the right on each floor. The door has plain reveals. Inside, the barn has a blocked fireplace with segmental arch in the south wall, a smaller blocked fireplace above, and a blocked 1st floor fireplace in the north wall with moulded surround and a lintel inscribed: '?CE 1627'. The roof has trusses with tie beams nd collars. The western truss is wind braced. The house has timber-framed internal partitions of late C16th type on the ground and 1st floors. A ground-floor doorway has a depressed-ogee head. The wing at the west has some timber-framed internal walls. On the 1st floor are 2 original plank doors with timber surrounds. The northern 1st floor room of this wing has square framed panelling of C17th type.

Listing NGR: SD6370269191

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