BLACK HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1301676
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1953
List Entry Name:: BLACK HALL
Statutory Address:: BLACK HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1301676
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1953
List Entry Name:: BLACK HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BLACK HALL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BLACK HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: King's Pyon
National Grid Reference:: SO 43730 50505

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/10/2012

SO 45 SW 1/38 20.2.53

KING'S PYON Black Hall

GV II*

House. Probably C15, remodelled and extended circa early C17, altered circa C18. Timber-framed with plaster infill, partly faced in English garden wall bond red brick, sandstone rubble plinth and extension. Plain tile roof with gabled and hipped ends. Large stone rubble lateral stacks with set-offs and later brick shafts. PLAN: 2 east bays of a medieval open hall remain on NW corner to which 2 ranges were added in circa early C17 forming an L-shaped plan; S range is of 2-room plan and E range has 2 rooms between which is a stairhall and small back room. In C18 an outshut and large integral stack was built on W side of S wing and S front of E wing was faced in brick. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys 3-window brick S front with C19 2-3 and 4-light casements with glazing bars, those on ground floor larger and with cambered arches, circa C18 or early Cl9 6-panel door to left of centre with porch. Gabled-ended wing on left with close-studding, tension braces and jettied first floor on all three sides, the left (W) side built against by stone outshut and large integral stack; C19 1,2,3 and 4-light casements with glazing bars. Rear (N) large framing, large lateral stack and lower early range on right (NW). INTERIOR: 2-bay medieval N W range; 2 remaining cruck trusses, the centre open, the E with complete hip; trenched purlins, diagonal ridgepiece curved wind-braces and some reused rafters, all smoke-blackened; inserted floor, E bay with chamfered cross beams and broad unchamfered joists, W bay has wall-post on N side with carved capital. S wing has queen-post roof with trenched purlins and thin wind-braces, ovolo-moulded ceiling beams on both floors and dragon beams to jetties on 3 sides, W side underbuilt with outshut and fireplace with chamfered stone jambs: E. wing has framed ceiling with deeply chamfered beams and joists, inscription 'NOW EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO' over doorway, C18 open-well staircase with stick balusters, square newels and moulded rail, and C19 king-post and strut roof. C17 joinery includes some panelling and scratch-moulded door in S wing. SOURCES: RCHM Vol III, p.88.

Listing NGR: SO4373050505

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 149719
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 88

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.