Building record 0152401000 - HALL BARN

STANDS IN LARGE PARK. 3 STOREYS & ATTIC. C.1675, RECTANGULAR BLOCK FACING N. IN EARLY C18 WING ADDED ON S EXTENDING E & OFFICES ON W SIDE. IN 1883 ADDITION BUILT IN NE ANGLE (B2).
BUILT FOR EDMUND WALLER, (POET). FULL DESCRIPTION (B4-5).
LOCATED AT NGR (B6).
Grade II+. Built for Edmund Waller, the poet, some time after 1651. Brick; stone dressings; stone slate hipped roof with lantern. Three storeys plus attic; 5 bays with coupled pilasters at the angles and between the windows. Ionic on the ground floor, Corinthian on the first and Composite on the second. The centre bay emphasized by detached columns carrying the pediments, segmental on the first floor and triangular on the second. The ground floor with a 3-bay porte-cochere by Devey of c.1865. In the roof 3 dormers with segmental pediments. To the right the former stables. Brick; slate roof with bell-turret. Two storeys (B3).
During the World War II part of the Wallace Collection was stored at Hall Barn (from 1939), along with the Royal Armouries collection, the painted ceiling from the Banqueting House (between January 1941 and July 1945),and part of the Society of Antiquaries collection (from 1941)(B13).