Cruckmeole Old Hall

Cruckmeole Old Hall is a manor house that has been divided into four cottages and is now a single residence. It dates from the late 16th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed with plaster infill and has plain tile roofs. Originally, it had a hall of 2.5 bays with a four-bay cross-wing to the left and a projecting two-storey entrance porch at the angle between them. There are early 17th-century additions at right angles to the rear on the right side.

The house is two storeys high with attics. The timber framing features small square panels, with four panels from the cill to the wall-plate on the cross-wing, and long and short straight tension braces. The rear gable has herringbone decoration above the tie beam, with upper and lower collars. The front gable is in imitation of late 20th-century style. The fenestration is scattered, with blocked openings of original ground-floor four-light mullion windows on the cross-wing and the gable of the early 17th-century addition, which has the position of a three-light window above. The present windows are all late 19th and 20th-century casements, with two on the ground and first floors of the front gable of the cross-wing and one on each floor of the gabled entrance porch. There is a small original light in the jettied attic above the porch and one window on each floor in the hall to the right. A prominent axial brick ridge stack is aligned with the porch, which also has a later external lateral stack to the right. The cross-wing features a tall external lateral stack built of narrow red bricks on a sandstone ashlar base with angle quoins. A six-panel door immediately to the right indicates the position of the cross-passage.

Inside, the hall has square oak panelling in the room to the left of the stack, which also features a stone fireplace dated 1588 on the bottom of the jamb. The back room of the cross-wing has double-sided panelling (formerly a screen) and a flat-arched ashlar fireplace with a moulded overmantel. There are traces of wall painting by the six-panel door to the right. The timber frame is exposed upstairs, showcasing chamfered beams and joists with ogee stops throughout.