Gusted Hall

Gusted Hall is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century or earlier, featuring a 19th-century extension on the left and an 18th or 19th-century kitchen at the front right. The building has a timber frame with a red brick facade and red brick extensions on both sides. It is topped with red plain tiled roofs and has four chimney stacks located on the left, off-center right, and at the rear of the original range, as well as at the gable apex of the kitchen range.

The house has a two-storey left range, a main range that is one storey with attics and a hipped dormer, and a single-storey kitchen range on the right. The windows are arranged in a 2:2:1 pattern, featuring 19th-century two or three-light casements with transoms and segmental arches. There is a gabled porch on the left range. Inside, the left range has chamfered bridging joists, while the original range has flat section ceiling joists and visible wall studs in the stair cupboard. A large chimney stack now contains a 20th-century fireplace, and there are two 19th-century cast iron fireplaces in the bedrooms. Several original vertically boarded doors remain. The kitchen range has a side purlin ridge board roof.

Historical references indicate that Gusted Hall was associated with Roger Darcie, who died in 1508, and was held by William Harrys in 1556. The name is believed to come from Peter Grestede, who was mentioned in 1338. These details are documented in Philip Morant's "History of Essex" from 1763-8 and Philip Benton’s "A History of Rochford Hundred" from 1873, as well as an article by Sylvia Manley in "Essex Countryside" from July 1972.