394 Beivley Court, Lacoch. 



moulded bases, supporting a brattished cornice over the door, and 

 finished at the top with small pedimented pinnacles. The door is 

 the original one formed of wide planks studded with rows of nails 

 and hung with long strap hinges. The escutcheon of the handle 

 remains. 



Inside the door is a porch 9ft. deep and 7ft. wide. 



Opposite this entrance is the inner doorway to the hall, which 

 has a four-centred arch of a single hollow-chamfered member and 

 sunk spandrils. It retains its original door, of similar construction 

 to the outer one. 



The hall is 27ift. in length by 18fft. in width, and IGJft. high 

 to the wall-plate of the roof. The dais was at the west end with 

 square oriels on either side, the fireplace is in the middle of the 

 north wall, and across the east end were the screens. 



The west end of the hall is part of the first work and is con- 

 structed of timber framing with curved braces supported on a low 

 sleeper wall of masonry. There are no original openings in this 

 wall. 



The north wall has at its west end a pointed archway, of two 

 hollow chamfered members, which opened into the oriel now 

 destroyed. In the middle of the wall is the great fireplace, which 

 is an insertion, though only slightly later in date than the wall. 

 It is 8ft. wide, and the head is of one stone lOJft. in length by 

 34in. high, formed into a depressed arch.^ At the east end of the 

 wall under the screens is a doorway to the inner court which has 

 a four-centred head and sunk spandrils and retains its original 

 door of similar character to those of the porch. 



The east end of the hall had only one doorway, which is of a 

 single-moulded member with a four-centred head. This door led 

 to the buttery. Above this doorway the upper part of the wall is 

 carried upon a boldly-projecting moulded course, which has been 

 partly destroyed. 



On the south side under the screens is the back of the entrance 

 door from the porch, which has the curious feature of the spandrils, 



The fireplace head at Great Chalfield, of slightly earlier date, also of 

 one stone, is 12ft. long by 4ft. high, and ISjin. thick. 



