Pricketts Hall

Pricketts Hall is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier, located on Colne Road in Bures Hamlet. The building is timber framed, with parts that are weatherboarded and plastered, and features a thatched roof with valleys of red clay tiles. It has four bays facing east and includes an axial chimney stack positioned one bay from the left end, which creates a lobby-entrance. There is a rear wing from the right end, dating from the 17th century, which forms an L-plan and has an external chimney stack on the right side. Attached to this stack is a complete 18th-century bread oven. The house is two storeys high, with a plastered front that has a two-window range of horizontally sliding sashes, featuring 18 lights on the ground floor and 12 lights on the first floor. The entrance includes a four-panel door with glazed upper panels, and above the door is an inscription in the plaster that reads "S W A 1769." The main stack has grouped diagonal shafts. Access to the interior was restricted in April 1984. Inside, the ground floor room to the right of the main stack has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section. The building was formerly known as Upper Jennies Farm.