Lambourne Hall

Lambourne Hall is a manor house dating from the mid to late 16th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has five bays and is oriented approximately northeast to southwest, with two rear chimney stacks. There is a parallel range at the back from the 18th century and a single-storey lean-to extension beyond that. A northeast crosswing was added in 1937, along with a single-storey southwest extension from the 18th or 19th century and a lean-to extension with a slate roof in the angle.

The house is two storeys high with attics and has a six-panel flush door set in a plain Doric porch from the 18th century. All the windows are from the 20th century, and there are three hipped dormers. Some timber framing is exposed inside. The main front range consists of a three-bay storeyed hall, with a two-bay parlour or solar to the northeast. The original service end has been removed. Inside the hall, there is plain 16th-century panelling at the southwest end, an axial beam, and plain-chamfered joists with step stops. A carved doorhead with Tudor arcature at the northern corner leads into the parlour, which is now blocked by an inserted stair. The original wide hearth has had its brickwork largely replaced at ground floor level.

In the parlour, there is an axial beam with roll mouldings and converging stops, and the joists feature double ogee mouldings. An overmantel in the parlour and panelling in the rear room next to it were introduced from Marks Hall in Coggeshall, which was demolished in 1950, along with some reproduction panelling. The roof structure is not exposed, and there is an original plain stair in the rear range. Notably, panelling and a carved stone fire surround removed from this house in 1917 are now housed in the Tudor and Stuart Room of the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight.