Roding House

Roding House is a late medieval hall house that has been altered in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It is timber framed and roughcast rendered, with some weatherboarding, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building features a two-bay hall that runs approximately north to south, with an original two-bay crosswing at the north end and an 18th-century parlour crosswing at the south end. A chimney stack was inserted at the north end of the hall in the late 16th century, and there are external chimney stacks on the north wall of the north crosswing and on the east wall of the south crosswing. An 18th-century extension projects from the north crosswing, and there is a 20th-century lean-to conservatory to the north.

The house has two storeys with an attic. The west elevation has a weatherboarded dado with roughcast render above. It features a six-panel flush door with a plain surround, one French window, and one 20th-century casement window. On the first floor, there is one 20th-century casement window, one 18th-century window with two fixed lights, one wrought iron casement window with leaded rectangular panes, and one late 18th-century double-hung sash window with 12 lights. A gabled dormer contains a 20th-century casement window. The south crosswing has a hipped roof on the west side only. The south elevation, facing Ongar Road, has a double-hung sash window with 12 lights on each floor, dating from the late 18th century. Some framing is exposed internally.

Inside the hall, there is an inserted hearth made of 33 cm brickwork with a carved mantel beam that features a foliate design with a Tudor rose at the west end. The hall also has an inserted floor supported by an axial beam with exposed joists of vertical section, dating from the early 17th century. The walls of the hall were raised by approximately 1.20 metres in the 17th century, and the roof was rebuilt in a clasped purlin form. The north crosswing has a blocked unglazed window in the north wall of the upper floor with a rebate for a hinged shutter, as well as a blocked unglazed window in the west wall with a groove for sliding shutters. The building features jowled posts and heavy studding. The roof was originally constructed with crownposts and has been raised by approximately 50 cm and rebuilt. In addition to the previously mentioned window, there are two 18th-century windows with wrought iron casements in the east elevation at first floor level, one of which has been adapted with wood.