Listed Building: SLOUGH HALL (409689)

LITTLE WALDINGFIELD SLOUGH HALL 1. 5377 TL 94 SW 9/756 II 2. Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17, with later additions. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled roofs; an internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft and corbelled head. 2 storeys. The facade has 3 gables of different sizes and dates: on the left, a wide gabled addition of the mid-C19, containing a large kitchen, still with a very fine contemporary range; in the centre, an original narrower gable to a 2-bay cross-wing, which, with an associated 2-bay main range, formed the whole of the original house, on the right, a mid-C20 gabled projection from the main range. All the windows are mid-C20 small-paned 2-light casements, except those on each side of the entrance, which have semi-circular arched heads in early C19 style; the door and portico are also reproductions in the same style. Some plain, good-quality framing is exposed in the original part of the house; main ceiling-beams with plain chamfer ; roof of the cross-wing, with principal rafters, clasped purlins and windbraces, was Initially hipped at the front. The internal chimney-stack has evidence for 4 hearths, 2 on each floor. The house stands on an isolated site, surrounded by the remains of a large moat. Deeds, mainly relating to woodlands associated with the farmstead, go back to 1635, and a reference in a will of 1655 to 'The New House' may perhaps relate to this building. Listing NGR: TL9395944412