Hazeleigh Hall

Hazeleigh Hall is a house dating from around 1570, which incorporates part of an earlier building and has been altered in the 18th century and around 1900. It is timber framed and plastered, with some exposed framing, and has a roof made of red clay tiles, handmade at the front and machine-made at the rear. The house has six bays facing west, with an axial stack located one bay from the left end and a rear stack one bay from the right end. There is a 16th-century rear wing at the left end, featuring an external stack, as well as an 18th-century single-storey weatherboarded extension beyond it. To the right of this wing, there are two 18th-century rear wings that form a continuous group across the back of the house.

The building is two storeys tall with attics and has a five-window range of triple sash windows from around 1900, plus two additional windows in gabled dormers. The entrance features a half-glazed four-panel door with a gabled canopy on brackets, also from around 1900, and the bargeboards on the house and both dormers date to the same period. Both stacks have grouped diagonal shafts, again from around 1900. The attic gable on the left side has exposed close studding and an original four-light window of an early glazed type, which includes three hollow-moulded mullions and one with four diamond saddle bars, though it has modern glazing.

Inside, the house features jowled posts and chamfered axial and transverse beams with step stops, as well as plain joists of horizontal section. The right bay contains two sets of jowled posts, one inside the other, and the floor structure indicates that an earlier and narrower building is incorporated into the current structure, likely the crosswing of a hall house that once extended to the rear. The left ground-floor room is fully lined with oak panelling from around 1600, while the room above it has painted panelling of uncertain date. The roof is a butt-purlin type with high collars and straight wind-bracing, incorporating some smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval hall. The floor of the left rear wing was rebuilt in the 18th century. Hazeleigh Hall is recognized as a manor house.