Lea Hall

Lea Hall is a house dating back to the 16th century, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of timber framing with rendered infill and brick, and has a plain tile roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic and basement, and has a T-shaped plan with later additions.

The eastern side of the house comprises three builds. To the left is a single-storey service wing from the 19th and 20th centuries, built of brick. To the right of this is the oldest section of the front, a single gabled bay with a brick basement and an ashlar-surrounded window. The ground floor has close-studded walling with a 3-light mullioned window with a transom; a similar window is above. The jetty of the gable is coved. A 2-light attic window is also present. To the right of this is a later 16th-century portion with close studding to the ground floor, featuring tension braces and a middle rail above a brick basement. The centre has flush brickwork simulating timber framing for an 18th- or 19th-century chimney. The first floor is jettied and supported on moulded brackets with a moulded bressumer. A projecting 5-light window is centrally located on the first floor, with the central three lights blocked by the chimney. The attic is also jettied, with moulded brackets and bressumer matching those on the ground floor. The left side of the attic has a 5-light window with chevron strutting.

The right-hand side (the entrance front) has a gabled wing with close studding, a middle rail, and tension braces on the ground floor, along with a 5-light mullioned window with a transom. The first floor is jettied with a moulded bressumer and brackets, and has similar close-studding. The central 5-light window is aligned with the ground floor. A jettied gable above has a moulded bressumer and chevron strutting to the lower panels, framing a tall 5-light mullioned and transomed window. To the right, in the re-entrant angle with the southern wing, is a two-storey brick addition from the 19th century, with a porch doorway.

The south face has a substantial 19th- and 20th-century addition that obscures the lower section of the 16th-century building, but the jettied attic gable is visible at the right, with a central 5-light window of which the lateral lights are now blocked, and with chevron strutting.

Inside, the ground floor rooms have chamfered ceiling beams; one internal wall displays small framing and a 4-centred bressumer. The original plan seems to have developed from a rectangular gabled block in the northeast, to which an L-shaped block was added, forming the T-shaped building, with further additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. Much of the timber on the northern side has been renewed, but that on the western and southern gabled wings (including the southern attic window) appears original.