Listed Building: ELMSWELL HALL (281137)

TL 96 SE ELMSWELL SCHOOL ROAD 5/34 Elmswell Hall 15.11.54 (formerly listed as The Hall, Hall Lane) -- II Farmhouse, formerly manor house. Circa 1550-80 with major remodelling of early C19, and mid C20. Timber-framed, encased in early C19 gault brick with dentilled eaves cornice; some earlier plasterwork at rear. Concrete tiled hipped roof. Two external C16/C17 chimneys of orange/buff brick and an internal chimney of gault brick rebuilt in C20. 2 storeys. 3 windows. Early C19 window openings with flat arches of painted finely-gauged brick: mid C20 aluminium casements. C19 entrance doorway with C20 half-glazed panelled door: an open pediment of painted limestone on enriched console brackets: probably reset from an C18 building. Interior: a late C16 crosswing of about 4 bays to left has partially exposed framing: heavy principal posts and cambered tiebeams. Close studding with evidence for ogee-moulded and 4-centred arched doorways. Windbraced clasped purlin roof. To rear right is further C16 work, much altered. A little C17 wainscotting. A partially infilled medieval moat. Listing NGR: TL9841664278