Description

WIGMORE CP A 4110 (west side) SO 4068 - 4168 9/43 Wigmore Hall 11.6.59 GV II House. C16, altered and extended C18, restored mid- to late C20. Timber- framed with rendered infill on rubble base, painted brick walling at north end; plain tiled roof, half-hipped at south end with large rubble stack to east side of ridge. T-plan; original central block has small east wing (probably once a porch) and a large chimney at south end. (Part of the north-west block may date from this time). In the C18 the house was extended by two framed bays to the south. The large north cross-wing is a C20 addition, which may replace an older structure. Two storeys. Framing: original part has close-set studding and a jettied first floor on a moulded bressummer on the east side. The east wing has square panels to the side elevations of ground floor and on first floor, short straight braces in upper corners (also in lower corners on first floor); the first floor is jettied on shaped brackets at the gable end and the collar and tie- beam truss above is also slightly jettied, and has three struts to the collar and a V-strut above. The C18 part consists of irregular rows of rectangular panels, three and four from sill to wall-plate. A large gabled half-dormer just south of the main chimney has a similar collar and tie-beam truss to that in the east wing and is a later addition. Windows are all C20 leaded casements. East front elevation: original part has three 3-light windows on the groud floor, and on the first floor is an oriel window with a coved base, brattished sill and moulded cornice, and also another 3-light window. Beneath the oriel window is the main entrance which has a C20 door. The east wing to the left has a ground floor oriel window with a moulded sill and a 3-light first floor window. There are single-light windows on both floors of the side elevations, The C18 part has a 2-light and a 3-light basement window (to accommodate the change in ground levels), two 3-light ground floor windows and the gabled half-dormer has a 5-light window. The C20 cross-wing gable end to the right has two 2-light windows and a single- light window on the ground floor and a 3-light first floor window. Interior: there is some Cl7 re-used panelling in the ground floor room at the south end and also a fireback (possibly Cl7) in the fireplace. The ground floor room of the east wing is said to have some C16 wall-paintings now concealed beneath C20 panelling. (RCHM, Herefs, III, p 209, item 4: BoE, p 321).

Listing NGR: SO4151268748

External Links

• Wigmore Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26473392

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