Jacobes Hall

Jacobe's Hall is a timber-framed hall house dating from the 15th century, with crosswings to the left and right. It was restored around 1919. The building has red plain tiled roofs, with chimney stacks positioned off-centre to the left of the hall and at the end of the right crosswing, a central stack to the right crosswing, and another at the rear of the left crosswing. The originally jettied crosswings have since been underbuilt. The hall house has two storeys and attics, with a hipped dormer on the right side of the hall. The window arrangement is 1:1:1, with vari-light glazing added in the 20th century. A central arched doorway is located to the left of the hall. Exposed halved arched braces are visible on the first floor of the crosswings, and original mullion windows are now blocked within the main frame.

A particularly noteworthy feature is a red brick, semi-hexagonal stair turret at the angle of the hall and right crosswing. The turret is crenellated, featuring three bands of trefoiled corbelling and a pyramidal capping showing signs of crocketting, with a two-light window under a square head at eaves level. The return of the right crosswing has three-panelled doors in surrounds with flat canopies, a matching doorway present on the return of the left crosswing.

The interior retains a good quality, virtually complete heavy timber frame, with the first floor of the hall inserted between the 15th and 16th centuries. Halved arched braces are present on the walls, and arched braces tie the beams, supporting two armed crown posts in the crosswings. The hall features an octagonal crown post with moulded capital and base. Original doors with four-centred heads, one with foliated spandrels, remain. The inserted hall ceiling has moulded beams, with carvings of twisted leaves and foliate stops, along with moulded and crenellated wall plates. Large inglenook fireplaces exist, the eastern one featuring a moulded lintel with foliate spandrels.

The building was formerly the home of the Beriff family, evidenced by memorial brasses in All Saints Church, Brightlingsea; these are dated between approximately 1496 and 1578. A 19th-century shop was erected between the crosswings and was removed around 1919 during the building's restoration by Mr. Henry Havelock.