Marks Hall Cottages

Marks Hall Cottages is a house that has been divided into two homes. It dates back to the 16th century and has been altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. The structure is primarily timber framed and plastered, with some sections made of red brick in both English and Flemish bond. The roof is covered with handmade red plain tiles. The main range, which faces southwest, features two axial stacks, while a brick wing extends forward from the left end, containing an 18th-century stack in its left wall and a small 20th-century extension to the left. There is also a 19th or 20th-century wing at the rear of the right end.

The building has two storeys, with five 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor. There are two plain boarded doors and a half-glazed door in the 20th-century extension. The front elevation of the main range is faced with brick in Flemish bond up to the first floor, with plaster above. The brick wing features 16th-century bricks in English bond up to about three metres high, with 18th-century bricks in Flemish bond above, and the front elevation has been significantly altered around the windows. The roofs are hipped, and there is an elaborately scrolled wrought iron weathervane on the roof of the brick wing. The eaves have profiled sprockets, and the structure includes jowled posts, chamfered axial and transverse beams that are unstopped, and plain joists of horizontal section. The timber frame is mostly hidden by interior finishes.

Originally, this building served as a service range for Marks Hall, which was demolished in 1949, but it may have been a house even earlier. It is likely the part described in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report as built around 1566, though the source of this specific dating is unknown.