Waterhales Farmhouse

Waterhales Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th century, with later additions from the late 17th century and around 1800. It is constructed from timber framing and rendered, topped with a peg-tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and features a two-window range. The windows are 20th-century replacement sashes with glazing bars and horns. A pillared porch leads to a panelled door with side lights.

Inside, the south gabled block facing east is a mid-16th century high-end cross-wing of good quality. It has heavy flat laid joists with diminished haunched soffit tenons and stepped chamfer stops, and a jetty that has been underbuilt. The doorway leading to the former hall has a flat 4-centred arched head with rolls and cavetto mouldings. There are mortice and wattle holes in the door jamb for a draught screen that protected the high end of the hall. A large stair trap is located at the rear of this block. The jettied front has apertures for two large projecting windows on both storeys, with a shutter groove upstairs. The interior features internal tension bracing and halved and bridled scarfs.

A prominent stack flanks the south wall, with tumbled offsets externally and fireplaces on both floors made of rebuilt Tudor brick in English bond. The upper chamber has an inserted cambered ceiling from the later 16th century, with bridging joists that have multiple roll mouldings and a smaller mullioned window at the rear west end. To the west is a late 17th-century timber-framed extension that contains a stair, featuring strong basic framing with primary bracing. To the north is a late 17th-century block that replaced the earlier hall, with framing similar to the west addition and the current front door from the 20th century. There is a 17th-century brick stack to the north and a brick-built block filling the northwest angle from around 1800, which has dentils at the eaves and has been much restored. This block features 20th-century sash windows and a door. Trenches in the garden have revealed brick foundations of the hall house extending to the north. Waterhales Farmhouse is part of a group with the barn nearby.