Panfield Hall

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TL 72 NW and TL 7225-7325 PANFIELD HALL ROAD (south side)

3/16 and 7/16 Panfield Hall

2.5.53 - I

Great house. C16, altered in C18 and C20. Red brick in English bond with lime- stone dressings, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Hall range aligned E-W, c.1500 with at the W end a small mid-C16 extension to the S and a larger extension to the N, C18 and C20. At the E end a second hall-range of similar size and orientation, c.1570, with a stack in the S wall. From this a parlour/ solar range formerly extended to the N, probably part of a quadrangular plan, which has been truncated to approx. 3 metres. Square tower to E of the junction, c.1570. 2 inserted stacks, one in the original hall and one at its junction with the later hall. 2 storeys with attics. The original hall has a moulded brick plinth, exposed on the N and S elevations and returning at the E end into the junction with the later hall. This has in the N elevation a window of 3 lights with 3 arched heads of 4-centred curvature, recessed spandrels and hollow-moulded jambs, mullions and transom, a similar window of 2 lights on the first floor, and a blocked large hall window with moulded jambs, 4-centred head and external label; below it, the brick plinth is ornamented with a diaper design in limestone. The E gable has a 3-light window similar to that in the N elevation, now enclosed by the E extension. The second hall has in the N elevation a single-light window with square head and ovolo-moulded jambs, on the first floor a window of 4 lights with square head and ovolo-moulded jambs, mullions and transom, and a similar window of 3 lights on the ground floor of the S elevation. The other windows are C20 reproductions. The doorway in the N elevation of the second hall has a square head and ovolo-moulded jambs. The S stack has 3 octagonal shafts, 2 ornamental and one plain, accurately restored. The E tower is in 4 stages externally, with a moulded plinth and moulded string courses at each storey. The ground storey forms a porch with an E doorway with semi-circular outer arch, keystone and moulded imposts; above the arch is a sunk panel with a C17 shield of arms in stone for Symonds of Great Yeldham, within a flat pediment of brick. The 2 lower storeys have 2 windows on each side of moulded brick, cement-rendered. The third storey has round-headed windows, and a doorway with arched head of 4-centred curvature to the W, from the house. Most of the windows are blocked. The original (W) hall has a NE doorway (originally leading to the parlour) with roll-moulded jambs and 4-centred arched head of plastered brick. At the SW corner there is a doorway into the small S extension with moulded jambs and Tudor head with carved spandrels. A short section remains (in the N corridor) of the edge of a former 'low end' gallery, moulded and carved in the same style as the roof, with a defaced shield of arms. The roof is of 3 bays with arch-braced collar trusses on wallpieces with the finials carved in high relief, serpentine braces to the wallplates, trefoil and quatrefoil pierced tracery in the spandrels, 2 butt-purlins to each pitch, and serpentine wind-bracing, all components being moulded, unsooted. At the apex there is an incomplete line of horizontal panels with quatrefoil piercing. A fourth bay at the W end is of plain construction. The later (E) hall has 2 transverse moulded beams with lamb's tongue stops, and the original roof of 5 bays, with arch-braced collar trusses profiled to form a barrel-vault of 4-centred curvature, originally plastered to the soffit, now stripped, and side-purlins with curved wind-bracing above. Traces of moulded plaster remain on the end walls above the level of the inserted celing, in moulded panels with detaced heraldic emblems. The original N wallplate has a face-halved and bladed scarf. 2 tiebeams have been inserted. C17 stair introduced in C20. RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL7399425029

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