Essex Hall Farmhouse

Essex Hall Farmhouse is a lobby-entrance house dating from the early 17th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with plaster and a facade made of yellow brick, topped with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The building has four bays arranged approximately east-west, with an axial chimney stack located in the second bay from the east and an external chimney stack at the west end. The house faces south. There is a rear extension from the west end, built in the 19th century, along with a single-storey extension to the west of it, also from the 19th century. A 20th-century extension is located in the northeast gable. The south facade, made of yellow brick in Flemish bond, includes simple rusticated giant pilasters from the late 19th or early 20th century. The house has a tiled gabled porch and a three-window range of double-hung sashes with six lights. Inside, there are plain-chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops. The farmhouse is situated on a moated site.