The Hall

The Hall is a manor house built in the late 16th century and early 17th century, with later extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with the later parts made of brick and plaster, and a tiled roof. The original layout is in an L-shape, consisting of a 16th-century crosswing aligned northeast-southwest and an early 17th-century wing aligned northwest-southeast, each with an axial chimney. In the 19th century, a block was added in the angle between the wings, and the roofs were integrated and hipped all around. In the 20th century, the northwest-southeast wing was extended to the southeast, and an additional block was constructed in the angle.

The house has two storeys. On the southwest elevation, the ground floor features a bay window with 20th-century casements, a 20th-century gabled porch, and a late 19th-century sash window. The first floor includes one early 19th-century sash window and two late 19th-century sash windows. The northwest (garden) elevation has two early 19th-century sash windows and a trellised porch, with three early 19th-century sash windows above. Internally, there is no exposed framing. The roof of the northeast-southwest crosswing was originally of crownpost construction but has been altered to clasped purlin, while the roof of the northwest-southeast wing is of clasped purlin construction. This is the third manor house established in Great Canfield, built on a new site by Thomas Wiseman I or II between 1579 and 1602, and it may have been part of a larger E-plan house. The Hearth Tax return of 1662 records 16 hearths.