Jacobes Hall (EHER 34230)

15th century timber framed hall house, restored around 1919.

Listed building description 15th century timber framed hall house, restored around 1919. <1> <2> Information from NRHE data import JACOBES HALL <3> This is a 16th century half-timbered building with main block and east and west wings. A shop, formerly situated to the north of the main block, between the wings, has been demolished exposing a fine turreted brick staircase. The main block and east wing are now in use as a guest - house, the west wing, much altered, has been converted into three tenements. <4> Jacobes Hall, Hall house with crosswings to left and right. 15th century. Restored circa 1919. RCHM 4. Grade I. (See list for details). <5> Jacobes Hall, house, two tenements and shop, on the S side of High Street, 200 yards ESE of the modern church, is of two storeys, timber-framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled. It was built early in the 16th century, with a two storeyed hall in the middle and cross-wings at the E and W ends. The W cross-wings has been largely rebuilt and there is a modern shop between the wings. <6> Jacobes Hall is an urban H-planned house, possibly an inn, in an outlying limb of the Cinque Ports. The profiles on the central crown-post of the hall suggest a date of between around 1460 and 1470. <7> According to Pevsner the house is first recorded in 1315. <8> Additional reference <9>