Hormead Hall

Hormeah Hall is a manor house dating from the 16th century, with renovations in the 17th century, including a kitchen wing added to the northwest and alterations to the rear wing with dormers added in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, topped with steep red tile roofs. It is a long, two-storey house facing south, with a cellar beneath the eastern end. The south front has three windows and a half-glazed door set within a trelliswork porch, featuring three-light small-paned casements and a canted bay. There are two large hipped dormers at the eaves that provide additional light to the first floor, which is partly within the roof. A tall red brick chimney is located a third of the way from the eastern end, with separate octagonal shafts and moulded caps aligned across the ridge, along with two similar shafts for the rectangular external chimney on the western gable.

Inside, the western room has a lower floor level and axial joists, indicating it may have been added in the 17th century. The central part of the house consists of three bays, now serving as a passage and hall, featuring two cross beams and paired axial beams staggered in line, which are part of a floor that was inserted into the former open hall and service bay. There is an edge-halved scarf joint in the front wallplate, and a tie beam across the western face of the chimney was installed when the tie-beam of the open-truss of the hall was cut back to the wallplates. In the northeast corner of the hall, an old door with moulded jambs, a three-centred doorhead, and carved spandrels leads to the eastern parlour, which has a cellar below. This parlour features a fine stone moulded fire surround with a four-centred arch and spandrels carved with heraldic shields, likely belonging to John Delawood and his wife Katherine. The tall chamber above the hall includes an 18th-century iron basket grate. The site is moated and is considered the centre of Redeswall Manor.