Halston House

Halston House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century and has seen significant later additions and alterations. The exterior is painted brick that conceals a timber frame, topped with plain tile roofs. The building has a complex layout that likely results from the merging of two originally separate houses. The oldest section is the south range, which was originally a two-bay house with one and a half storeys and a central stack, later extended to the east and raised to two storeys. To the north are two parallel and adjoining wings from the mid-17th century, with the western wing likely being the older of the two.

The house features two storeys with gable-lit attics in the parallel wings and a dentilled eaves cornice on the south range. The framing is now brick-cased externally, except for the principal rafters visible on the south gable of the west wing. The windows are irregularly placed, with late 20th-century casements. The south range has three windows below the eaves, along with a French window and a flat-roofed porch. The east side has two casements on each floor at the gable end of the south range, with a staircase window above a cellar window on the left side of the east wing. There is also a range of 20th-century casements to the right. The main entrance is centrally located between the two parallel wings, featuring a six-panel door within a late 20th-century pedimented doorcase. A prominent red brick ridge stack on the south range has triple shafts and moulded capping, with end stacks on the parallel wings.

Inside, the east wing contains an oak newel stair from around 1650, featuring vase-shaped balusters. The south room of the west wing has re-used 17th-century wainscot panelling, while one room upstairs in the east wing has early 17th-century decorative panelling, and another in the west wing has plain panelling. The roof of the east wing and the eastern part of the south range were reconstructed in the mid-19th century, but the west wing retains a double-purlin roof with collar and tie beam trusses.