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A multi-gabled house with three tall brick chimneys stands behind a low wooden gate and fence, surrounded by bare trees.

Guilden Morden Hall, Feb 1928, east aspect (MoC280/57)

Morden Hall, Guilden Morden

History of Morden Hall

A detail from an 1885 Ordnance Survey map showing the Morden Hall site with buildings, property boundaries, and land plots.

Morden Hall OS 1885

Listed building:

Farmhouse, formerly a manor house. Medieval origins with late C15 or early C16 alterations and additions, late C17 or early C18 addition and C19 and C20 alterations. The building is noted for its late C15 or early C16 roof.

The original manor house was destroyed during the peasant uprising of 1381, it is probable that the hall was rebuilt shortly after and extended in the C15 by the Haseldens. Thomas Hayes refurbished the house in c.1620, it was used as a farmhouse from the C18.

A pale multi-gabled house with several chimneys stands among bare trees in an overgrown garden during a winter day.

Guilden Morden Hall, Feb 1928, south aspect (MoC281/57)

A black-and-white view of a dark horizontal wooden beam featuring a repeating carved pattern of interlaced or wave-like forms.

Carved beam, Guilden Morden Hall, April 1928 (MoC285/57)

Detail of a dark, horizontal wooden beam with light-coloured, carved scroll-like patterns below a white window frame.

Scroll work on beam, Guilden Morden Hall, April 1928, (MoC282/57)

Close-up black and white view of a wall section showing a crisscross pattern of wooden laths packed with rough plaster clumps.

Guilden Morden Hall, March 1928, unusual lath plaster (MoC286/57)

Exposed wall structure showing diagonal timber laths and rough mortar infill with rubble debris on the ground below.

Rare lathe and plaster work Guilden Morden Hall, March 1928, east aspect (MoC283/57)

Dark wooden door with vertical paneling set in an arched frame, featuring a metal knocker and a light reflection in the center.

Old carved door ‘linen panneling’ Guilden Morden Hall, Mar 1928, east aspect (MoC284/57)

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  • tudor

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