Revels Hall

Revel's Hall is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with additions from the 17th century and internal alterations in the mid- and late-19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with gabled old tiled roofs featuring fretted scalloped bargeboards on the north-east wing. Red brick chimneystacks, some with oversailing caps and long orange clay pots, adorn the main roof. A tall yellow brick stack sits above a plastered external chimneybreast.

The building comprises a two-bay 16th-century crosswing, to which a long 17th-century wing was added to the right (south-east), likely originally intended as a lobby entry. The interior has been extensively altered in the mid-19th century, with a large north-east wing constructed in that period.

The south-west elevation features gables on the left, centre, and right. The centre gable has a three-light wooden attic casement incorporating an earlier iron casement, all with small panes. The first floor has four wood casement windows with small panes; the centre gable includes a four-light window. The ground floor has three four-light wood casement windows, and a doorway to the right of centre with a 19th-century door, the upper half glazed within an earlier 19th-century fluted surround, a cornice hood supported on 18th-century profiled brackets, possibly reset. The south-east flank elevation has the first floor weatherboarded in dark-stained wood. The north-east elevation features a four-light casement above a late 19th-century five-light rectangular mullion and transom bay with leaded transom lights, and a heavy moulded cornice, with a projecting red brick large 19th-century gable to the right, containing a long mullion and transom landing window. A main north-east projecting gable wing has large triple sash windows beneath red rubbed brick arches, with blue brick impost and sill bands, arranged as 4:12:4 panes on the first floor and 5:15:5 panes on the ground floor.

Inside, the hall reveals a heavy chamfered beam with tongue stop detail in the ceiling, panelled walls (some 18th-century, most 19th-century), and a red brick fireplace with an outer stone surround incorporating Tuscan pilasters and a heavy ornamental moulded panel with raised centres and a dentil frieze. The staircase has a 19th-century newel construction, open well, newels with urns and flat moulded caps, an open string, hardwood treads, and a moulded handrail, with Chinese pattern stick balusters. A two-bay north-west room in the cross wing has an uneven plastered ceiling. On the first floor, the north-west bedrooms in the cross wing exhibit exposed jowled 16th-century posts with filled mortices for arch bracing, now removed. A two-panel door leads to a fireplace with a Regency cast-iron grate and an early 18th-century wood surround with a heavy bolection moulding. A winder stair leads to the attics, featuring wide boarded floors, plank doors, and ceilings at collar level. The upper roof structure is not visible and inaccessible.