Listed Building: SOUTHOLT HALL (281338)

SOUTHOLT TM 26 NW 5/57 Southolt Hall - II Manor farmhouse. Early C17. A 3-cell main range with service range to north forming T-shape plan. Timber framed and plastered. Some underbuilding in red brick at service end. Roof over main range is pantiled to the front and plaintiled to rear; it is hipped over the service end. Plaintiles to service wing. 2 storeys with attic to main range. 3 windows, C19 casements with small panes. Lobby entrance: a small gabled porch of colourwashed brick, the door not visible. A further doorway to left with half-glazed door. Internal stack with plain oblong shaft. Interior largely unaltered since C19. Most of the structure in main range is concealed. On the upper floor, axial bridging beams with ogee stop-chamfers and in 2 rooms, plain square joists. Newel stairs, the attic flight with a carved finial to the newel post and original entrance door. 3-bay, 3-cell service range, the stack a C19 insertion. Some plain studding on the upper floor, the end room with blocked C17 full-height windows with moulded square mullions, evidently superseding shallower diamond- mullioned windows. Plain joists, set flat, on both floors. Both the dairy and scullery have brick floors and C19 fittings unusually complete. The roofs have clasped and butt purlins, that over the main range with trimming for dormers. Listing NGR: TM2053369968