Hall Farmhouse

Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 15th century, with additions and alterations made in the 17th and later centuries. The house is timber-framed, with plaster and roughcast rendering on a brick plinth. It has plain tiled roofs, gabled except for a hipped roof where the front and service or kitchen ranges join. A 17th-century side stack is located at the rear of what was originally a late 15th-century open hall, and there is an early 17th-century brick ridge stack with four diagonally-set shafts at the base, featuring a moulded upper edge. The building plan comprises four ranges of different building periods arranged around a small courtyard.

The former open hall, on the right of the range facing the road, dates to the late 15th century. It is timber-framed, rendered and painted, with a steeply pitched plain tiled roof and a 17th-century side stack. It has two 18th- or early 19th-century flush-frame hung sashes with sixteen panes each at the first floor, and a 19th-century canted bay on a brick plinth at ground level. The main entrance is to the former open hall.

In the early 17th century, a portion of the original house to the left-hand side was rebuilt and extended to the rear, forming an L-shaped plan. This section is timber-framed, rendered, and has a plain tiled roof with an original ridge stack. It is two storeys high, with an additional attic. It features one late 18th- or early 19th-century flush-frame hung sash window with open boxing of sixteen panes, and a 19th-century canted bay on a brick plinth at ground level. The garden front includes a circa 1870 white brick gabled porch.

The remaining two ranges around the courtyard are additions dating from the 17th century, and are constructed with timber frames, rendered and set on a brick plinth with steeply pitched tiled roofs.

The interior retains limited visible timber framing. The roof of the former open hall is intact, comprising three bays and part of a fourth. It has cambered tie beams and is a clasped side purlin construction with substantial timbers and well-carpented details. The roof features paired cranked bracing between the principal rafters and purlins, similar to that of the barn at Hall Farm, Little Shelford. A closed truss is located between the second and third bays. The roof above the entrance hall is darkened by smoke.