Listed Building: POULTERS HALL (1060672)

TQ 74 SW MARDEN PLAIN ROAD (north-west side) 3/112 Poulters Hall 29.6.1982 II House, formerly cottages, now house. Late C16 or early C17, restored 1981-2. Timber-framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. 3 timber-framed bays and stack bay; possibly lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys and attic. Close-studded, with altered studding. Tension brace to each end. Lower midrail to stack bay and bay to left of it. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Brick ridge stack to right of centre, and slender projecting brick stacks to gable ends. Irregular fenestration of 3 three-light casements, two to left and one to right of stack. Blocked four-light diamond mullion first- floor window to right end of left end bay. Boarded door to right end of left end bay and blocked door under stack. Weatherboarded rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Chamfered axial beam and unchamfered joists to central room. Broader axial joists to left end room. Gunstock-jowled principal posts. Clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, and vertical queen struts to cambered collars. Low brick fireplace with chamfered bressumer to central room, stack probably largely rebuilt. Listing NGR: TQ7443443656