Housham Hall

Housham Hall is a farmhouse that dates from the mid-16th century and 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, covered with brickwork and rough-cast render, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features a two-storey crosswing aligned northeast-southwest, which is from the mid-16th century, and has an internal chimney stack located in the middle of the southeast wall, dating from the 17th or 18th century.

There is a three-bay block that extends two storeys with attics to the southeast, featuring an external chimney stack at the end. A single-storey extension was added to the northwest in the 20th century. The southwest elevation includes a glazed door, one casement window, and two tripartite double-hung sash windows, all from the 20th century. A six-panel door with glazed top panels is set in a flat-roofed porch. On the first floor, there is one 20th-century casement window, two early 19th-century tripartite double-hung sash windows, and one early 19th-century double-hung sash window.

The main roof is hipped at both ends behind a parapet, while the roof of the crosswing has been rebuilt on a northwest-southeast alignment and is half-hipped at the northwest end. Some of the framing is exposed internally, featuring jowled posts. There is evidence of former unglazed windows with sliding shutters in the crosswing. The crosswing and the main block are structurally distinct and from different periods, indicating a phased renewal of the building.

The first phase likely consisted of an open hall aligned northwest-southeast with a crosswing at the northwest end. The second phase involved the insertion of a chimney stack in the northwest bay of the hall, as illustrated in the Walker map of 1609. The third phase saw the demolition of the hall block and chimney, replaced by the current northwest-southeast block, while the crosswing remains. The fourth phase involved casing the entire building in brickwork and reconstructing the crosswing roof in a style typical of the 18th century. The current chimney stack in the crosswing is not the one depicted by Walker. There were also alterations to the windows in the early 19th century, some of which still exist, along with further changes in the 20th century.