Wrabness Hall Farmhouse

The property is a house, dating to the late medieval and 16th centuries, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It is timber-framed and largely clad in red brick in a Flemish bond pattern (some areas are painted), with plaster and weatherboarding, and has a slate roof. The main range faces southwest, with two axial stacks and a 16th-century, two-bay crosswing at the left end, featuring an internal stack on its left side. A weatherboarded extension to the rear connects to the main range (possibly originally a stair tower), and there’s a 19th-century brick extension to the left of this. A single-storey lean-to is located in the left-rear angle, with another single-storey lean-to beyond an external stack at the right end. A dairy, dating to the 18th/19th century, is at the rear of the right end and is roofed with red clay tiles. The house has two storeys and a four-window front featuring late 19th-century sash windows of four lights, with flat arches of gauged brick. A six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, is set within a Tuscan portico, and a 20th-century plain door is to its right. The roofs are low-pitched, with long, overhanging eaves, and the right half of the front elevation is set back. The roofs are of shallow pitch, aligned northwest-southeast, disregarding the original alignment of the crosswing. The left return and portions of the rear elevation are plastered, while the remainder is brick-faced. The rear elevation of the main range exhibits widely-spaced studs, visible internally but replaced with brick on the front elevation. The walls have been raised approximately 1.50 metres. The left section of the main range features a chamfered transverse beam with lamb’s tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. The right axial stack contains two wide wood-burning hearths; one has a wrought iron crane and trammel, two brewing pans and a wash-boiler. A large bread oven is located in the lean-to at the right end. The crosswing has jowled posts, close studding, curved braces trenched to the outside, moulded tiebeams, and moulded bridging beams above the first floor. Other beams are boxed in, though some may be moulded. A timber with a carved date is reported to be present in the roof. An early 19th-century staircase features stick balusters, and folding shutters are found in the ground floor rooms on either side of the stair hall.