Listed Building: TOAD HALL (INCLUDING THE OLD MEDICINE HALL) (1231130)

GOOSTREY C.P. BLACKDEN SJ 77 SE 2/23 Toad Hall (including the Old Medicine House) 14.2.67 - II Cottage late C16 with C20 link to circa 1600 house which was removed from Wrinehill in Staffordshire and re-erected here 1972. Toad Hall is brickwork and brick nogged timber framing, formerly thatched now with corrugated sheet roof. 2 storeys and loft. 4 truss-bays. 17 small framing panels in length and 4 panels wide, central outshut 3 panels long by 2 panels wide at the rear (north). Angle braces, middle rails continuous in C16 style. Replaced casements set in frame panels. Front wall (south) and gable-end rebuilt in brickwork. Gable barge boards, gable and central ridge stacks. Interior: Stone slab floor. Wide boarded doors on strap hinges with wooden latches. Three steeply pitched upper crucks with base ties, these accommodate a sleeping loft within their height. Chamfered purlins, wind braces, old thatch rafters. The Old Medicine House is timber framed with plastered panels and tiled roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. A rear 1-bay wing (east) completes a "T" shaped plan. Close studding, much of it replaced, with single middle rails ground floor and first floor, angle braces. Sandstone plinth. Wide boarded replaced door in Tudor arch headed opening. Mullion windows with 5-or-6 narrow lights. Cove-jettied gables with chevron infilling. Large half-dormer, fixed off centre, on west side. Low timber roof louvre. Interior: Axial firehood to fireplace heating two rooms, with moulded beam on north side. Ogee door heads. Chamfered ceiling beams and explosed joists. Internal window, with diamond mullions, in wall common to the added late C17 one bay east wing. Ovolo moulded surrounds to fireplace and door openings at first floor level. Exposed ridge tree and purlins with wind braces. The brick and glass unit, with tile roof, which links the two buildings is of no special interest. Listing NGR: SJ7890170565