Great Yeldham Hall

Great Yeldham Hall is a manor house dating from around 1300 and the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building includes a 2-bay crosswing, aligned northwest to southeast, which dates back to around 1300 and was originally part of a hall house, although the rest of that structure has been demolished. On this site, there is now a 2-storey range of 4 bays from the early 16th century. The crosswing has internal chimney stacks from the 17th century, while the main range has two chimney stacks from the 16th and 18th centuries. The house faces southeast and has 19th-century extensions at the rear.

The southeast elevation originally jutted out along its entire length but is now underbuilt. It features one 6-panel door and one 4-panel door, the latter with glazed upper panels, both topped with tented leaded canopies that have scalloped edges. There are four double-hung sash windows with 8 lights on the ground floor and five on the first floor, dating from the 18th century, many of which contain panes of crown glass. The roof is continuous and hipped at the northeast end.

Inside, the hall has jowled posts, stop-chamfered beams with run-out stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. A notable feature is an original plank-and-muntin screen, which is rare in Essex, along with two reproduction Tudor doorheads. At the top of the stairs, there are 16th-century pierced balusters. The roof of the northeast crosswing includes a moulded octagonal crownpost with wide straight braces from around 1300, and the main range also has a crownpost roof that reuses many smoke-blackened components from the medieval hall's roof.