Parsonage Hall

Parsonage Hall is a house dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, originally a hall house. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The original 2-bay crosswing, facing east, likely featured a hall that extended to the south, with a chimney stack on its right side. A fourth bay was added to the rear in the late 16th century, and a further 4-bay parallel block was constructed to the right, also in the late 16th century, with two external chimney stacks on the right wall, dating to the 16th and 18th centuries. A single-storey extension to the left rear was added in the 20th century.

The front elevation presents two jettied gable ends, the right wing being wider and taller. The ground floor has two early 19th century tripartite sashes with 4-12-4 lights, one small 20th-century casement, and a first floor with a similar tripartite sash, a late 18th century sash of 12 lights, and another 20th-century casement. A further 20th-century casement is located in the right attic. The south elevation has a 2-window range of 18th-century sashes of 12 lights, along with three 20th-century windows on the ground floor. An 18th-century six-panel door sits within an eared doorcase that has geometrical blind tracery above. The rear is fully jettied, featuring exposed plain brackets and a 18th-century painted wooden notice reading "Dairy," a remnant of the Window Tax.

The original crosswing contains a blocked door in the left wall, formerly providing access from the hall, as well as incomplete unglazed windows with shutter grooves on the rear and right walls. Inside, the crosswing has a chamfered binding beam and heavy plain joists jointed to it with run-out stops. A trimmed stair trap is located in the rear bay, blocked in the 20th century. The roof is a crownpost roof, originally hipped to the rear, featuring plain crown posts and thin axial braces. The added rear bay has early glazed windows with hollow-moulded mullions and a hipped gablet roof.

The right wing has an original stair with solid treads, chamfered binding beams with heavy plain joists jointed to them with soffit tenons, a design originally lathed and plastered to the soffits but now stripped. Exposed heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the inside and jowled posts are present. A rebated plain doorway in the upper right wall, likely originally for a garderobe, has been removed. Original rebated floorboards remain. The roof is a clasped purlin roof with a hipped gablet to the rear. The front walls of both blocks retain early glazed windows with hollow-moulded mullions and diamond-shaped stiffening bars, originally forming the outer parts of 3-part windows and now blocked. Early 17th-century oak panelling, relocated from another part of the house, is present, along with some reproduction features. The house retains an exceptional number of early features in undisturbed condition. It was formerly known as Parsonage Farmhouse.