Sodylt Old Hall

The building is a farmhouse, dating to the 15th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the late 16th century and later additions. It is timber-framed, with areas of cruck construction, red brick infill, and rebuilding; the roof is slate covered. Originally, the plan comprised an open-hall house of at least three bays, which was floored over and later had cross-wings added in the late 16th century. The hall range is one storey and attic, while the cross-wings are two storeys high.

The jettied gables and first floor of the cross-wings have two square and rectangular panels on each floor, accompanied by raking struts to the principal rafters. The cross-wings have plain chamfered bressumers with carved corner brackets. The left cross-wing, which is wider than the right, also features four square and rectangular panels from the cill to the tie beam, as well as a queen-strut truss at the rear. A section of a cruck truss, including a collar and tie beam, is visible in the rear left corner of the hall range. A late 19th-century three-light casement window is present on each floor of the cross-wings, with a similar window in a timber-framed gabled eaves dormer between them. A plank door is set under a 19th-century gabled hood, flanked by narrow, segmental-headed windows. A small, 19th-century segmental-headed window is located to the right of the hall range. A two-section red brick ridge stack is positioned to the right of the right cross-wing, while a prominent extruded external lateral stack with bands and two detached diagonal shafts stands to the left of the left cross-wing.

A full-length 18th-century red brick catslide outshut extends from the rear of the hall range, and a 19th-century red brick lean-to is attached to the right of the right cross-wing.

The interior contains two true cruck trusses. The truss on the right has chamfered stepping and a visible mortise for an arch-braced collar, suggesting it may have been the original centre truss of the open hall. The truss on the left is of a closed queen-strut type, and the first floor of the room to its left is at a different level to the other rooms, indicating that this bay was floored over at a different date. The ground floor of the hall range features chamfered ceiling beams with a variety of late 16th-century stops. The centre room of the hall range has square and rectangular oak panelling on one wall. A completely oak-panelled room is found in the left cross-wing, extending to the fireplace surround, which incorporates a panelled wall cupboard. A late 19th- or early 20th-century staircase, with carved splat balusters in a late 17th-century style, is within the hall range. Reused plank and muntin panelling forms part of the first-floor ceiling next to the right cruck truss, which retains original purlins and a straight wind brace. The right cross-wing also has chamfered ceiling beams on the first floor. A stone-walled cellar is situated below the left room of the hall range, and there may be reused curved principals in the outshut. Several 17th-century panelled and plank doors are present throughout.