Martin Hall Farmhouse

Martin Hall Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse, significantly altered in the mid-18th century and late 19th century. It is constructed of timber framing with painted brick infill, brick replacement walling, and refacing, with plain tiled roofs. A brick chimney rises from the main ridge, featuring four clustered diagonal shafts, with additional brick stacks to the left side elevation and rear. The building combines a hall and cross-wing plan. The hall runs along a north-south axis with a through-passage, and the cross-wing is located at the south gable end, featuring a large chimney at the junction of the two parts. Both hall components have two framed bays.

The farmhouse is two storeys in height with an attic and a cellar beneath the cross-wing, and has a dentilated eaves cornice. The hall range features a jettied rear, which may have originally been the front elevation, with close-set vertical studding at ground and first floor levels, along with chamfered brackets. Close-set vertical studding is also visible on the left side elevation. The right gable end presents four square panels from sill to wall-plate, with straight braces in the lower corners and slightly curved braces in the lower corners at first-floor level. A collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts is in the gable.

The front elevation was refaced with brick in the late 19th century. The main part of the farmhouse has a ground floor 4-light and 2-light casement with a cambered head, and a 2-light and 3-light first-floor casement. The right gable end of the cross-wing displays a ground-floor and first-floor 3-light casement with a cambered head. A narrow, part-glazed door has been inserted in the central light of the ground-floor window.

Inside, the roof above the hall has a single row of trenched purlins, elbowed wind-braces, and an intermediate interrupted tie-beam truss. The roof above the cross-wing has two rows of trenched purlins, straight wind-braces, and raking strut trusses. The front ground-floor room of the cross-wing has a cross-beamed ceiling with stop-chamfered main beams. A mid-17th-century open-well staircase with spiral balusters and a moulded handrail is located in the rear cross-wing.

Later 19th-century rear extensions, including a dairy wing, now obscure the original rear jetty.