Eastington Hall and Barn to North West

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SO 83 NW LONGDON EASTINGTON HALL 1/2 11-8-52 Eastington Hall and barn to north west

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Manor House apparently late C13 hall enlarged to L plan c1500, restored and doubled in size to open court plan 1911-14. Timber-frame and plaster panels with some red brick panels and some blue lias coursed rubble. Plain tile roofs. The principal range faces North with a long rear wing running South from West end and a converted barn attached at North West corner. The North front was doubled in length and a rear range running South from the East end was added in 1911-14. The whole of the South courtyard is of 1911-14, the rear of the original buildings having been refaced or extended. 2 storeys. The principal range has large c16 brick stack with stone base and shoulders, window in base of stack and short length of brick wall before large projecting double gabled c1500 porch and crosswing. Porch bay has hipped roof, crosswing is gabled. Apparently of two builds though similar in detail. The wing is close-studded, the porch is close-studded with some middle rails. Both are jettied at 1st floor and wing has jet tied gable. Ground floor has exceptional carved work, moulded posts carry brackets with carved spandrels, one each side of wing, one each side of doorway and one under corner dragon beam. Carved foliage and rose motifs and 3 carved figures. Doorway has Tudor arched opening with fine mask carvings in spandrels. Wing has square 12-light mullion and transom bay window. Moulded bressumer above. First floor of porch has 6-light mullion and transom window set over doorway. Wing has 10-light oriel with coved base, the end brackets carved. Coving above to upper jetty, with to left and right of oriel carved Tudor arch pieces linking to carved corner pendants. Plain bargeboards. Within porch is heavy oak door in pointed arched surround made of 2 massive oak pieces. Original East wall chimney to left of wing now encased by 1911-14 addition. To right of main chimney stack are 2 gables, both largely or entirely rebuilt, but shown in photographs of 1907: an inner gable projects with carved bargeboards, jettied first floor with carved posts and brackets to ground floor. Brick base and 12-light ground floor window, 4-light upper window; outer gable is larger and set back with brick ground floor, bressumer on small stone corbels, close studded 1st floor and carved bargeboards. An early C20 short link block connects with a square framed C17 barn at North West angle of house. Barn has inserted floor, early C20 openings and large added outside stack on West wall. Rear West range has 1911-14 gable and link to barn with blue lias stone below timber-frame at left end. Most of West front is close studded and plaster panelled. Rebuilt large outside range to left of stack, 3 to right. The right end is a crosswing gabled to West and East. Tension braces, red brick panels in South wall. Blue lias stone ground floor. The 1911-14 additions comprise on North front, to left of original range 2 large gables one with stone ground floor, 1st floor oriel and jettied gable the other wholly timber framed. One window range between the two gables. Plaster panels. To left is blue lias stone range gable ended to East end. East side is service range, mostly blue lias stone with 2 gabled bays, a circular turret with stone tiled roof and a large outside stack before at left end being timber-framed and plaster. The whole South courtyard is timber-frame and plaster of 1911-14. The centre range has large projecting gable over open ground floor. To left is further open loggia, timber posts and blue lias stone rear wall. Angle to West wing has 3-sided 1st floor window with gable over. 2 gables to West side, one of them much renewed gable end of original rear wing crosswing. To right of central gable a blue lias stone ground floor, timber-framed above. East wing has projecting gable, large ridge stack and South end gable that copies the detail of the c1500 North front gable. Interior: the hall has 2 base cruck trusses with collar and scissor rafter roof above dated to c1280 (F.W.B. Charles), c15 spere truss and screen. Ground floor room of wing adjoining porch has fine c1500 moulded beams and stone fireplace, the jambs moulded and curved out to carved heads. The house belonged to the Eastington family from the C13 to the C15 and passed to William Bridges d 1523. Radcliffe Hall wrote part of 'The Well of Loneliness' here c1920.

Listing NGR: SO8308938154

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Sources

Books and journals
Hall, R, The Well of Loneliness, (1900-1940)

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