Lambourne Hall

Lambourne Hall is a house originally built as a two-bay hall in the late 13th century, with significant alterations and additions dating to the 14th, 15th, 17th, and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with red plain tiled roofs. The east face features an external, plastered chimney stack, polygonal shafts attached to the central western range, and a stack to the west of the rear southern range. The building has a complex plan reflecting its many phases of construction, and is generally two storeys high, with attic space.

The present east front has a gambrel roof and a flat-headed dormer to the right of the external chimney stack. To the right of this is a three-window range of small-paned vertically sliding sash windows. A 20th-century part-glazed door is set within a red-tiled porch supported on brackets. A single-storey range to the right has a 20th-century glazed door, a central two-light casement window, and vertically boarded double doors. The left return has a two-window range of small-paned vertically sliding sashes and a single attic window. The east side has a two-storey porch, originally jettied, but now underbuilt on either side, and a rear range with a dormer window. A forward east range features a 20th-century gabled porch and a 20th-century glazed window. A red brick double range extends to the south.

Internally, the western wing represents the original late 13th-century hall, with the westernmost bay containing a later double roof. The bay to the east retains its original roof structure, featuring a crown post with a moulded base and capital, thick braces to a collar purlin, and supported by an end crown post adjoining the crosswing. The roof is heavily sooted, with the base of a smoke louvre opening still visible. A brick chimney stack, constructed around 1480, intrudes into this wing and likely predates the insertion of the first floor. The eastern wing was originally a four-bay crosswing with a deliberately off-centre narrow bay, possibly leading to an external kitchen. The timber frame of this wing remains intact up to roof plate level; above this, attics were added under a gambrel roof, probably in the 17th century, along with a contemporary staircase accessed via an arched opening with moulded plaster imposts and keystone. The close proximity in construction date between the hall and crosswing is evidenced by the lack of external wall or weathering differentiation between the two. While the possibility of the wing replacing an earlier structure exists, the archaic detailing in the remaining frame suggests otherwise. The collar purlin scarf displays a simple splay with undersquinted abuttments.