| Description | Raikes Hall Farmhouse, Tong. Mid 17th century hall and cross wing house.
'Late C17, farmhouse. Coursed gritstone on 2 storeys with stone slate roof. One saddlestone. Irregular quoins, 2 light, originally 4 light, chamfered mullion windows with drip moulds. Four centred arch chamfered doorways to right hand. Modern sandstone 'brick' extension to east is in keeping'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 09/08/1983. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1132903. Web site accessed 07/10/2013).
Raikes Hall Farmhouse was the subject of an archaelogical assessment as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The photographic image and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house of the mid 17th century. It faces south, is of two storeys and is built of coursed rubble masonry, quoined at the angles. The house has a hall and cross wing plan with an end lobby entrance.
The south front of the house retains some original detail. The hall range has some windows with recessed splayed mullions, while the wing shows signs of having similar fenestration, emphsised by hood moulds. At the extreme east end of the hall range is a blocked doorway with shallow segmental head; the doorway does not fit altogther happily with the quoining at the south east angle, but it nevretheless seems to be the earliest entry to survive.
The doorway opened into the housebody against the side of the the firehood. The hood has been removed, but the spine beam breaks on the line of the earlier bressumer. The parlour within the cross wing is featureless today; it was possbily heated originally by a stack on the west wall of the wing; the masonry externally shows some signs of disturbance. Today a cental stack heats both front and rear rooms. Behind the housebody is an outshut'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980. 'Raikes Hall, Tong'). |