Little Easthall Farm

Little Easthall Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It dates back to the 16th century or earlier as an open hall house, with a lower southern bay added, a floor and chimney inserted, and the roof rebuilt around 1600. The northern end of the building was modified in the early 18th century, and the front and ends were faced with brick in a chequered pattern with blue headers during the mid-18th century. The structure features a timber frame on a high brick sill, roughcast on the sides, and a steep old red tile roof with a rear catslide over the stair and outshut, as well as a hip at the northern end.

This unusual two-bay open hall house was converted around 1600 into a lobby-entry design with an internal chimney, creating a three-cell layout that includes a stair tower and an outshut at the rear of the stack. The house is long and two-storeys high, facing east, with a plat-band and eaves cornice, while the southern bay is one and a half storeys. There are two 2-light casement windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, featuring small panes and segmental arches on the ground floor. A large central chimney has three conjoined diagonal shafts and an additional flue on the south side. The southern gable has a projecting chimney, and there is a front lateral chimney at the northern end, which is now capped below the roof. A canted bay window is located at the northern end, with a three-light casement window above it.

Inside, the building has cambered tie-beams of large scantling, with the tie-beam of the open truss on the southern side of the chimney being deeply chamfered and stopped, featuring three peg holes for a former large brace and a peg near the top for a queen-post or strut of a side-purlin roof. The tie-beam is dark in color, likely from the open fire, distinguishing it from the other timbers. There is a later truss on the northern face of the chimney with a straight wind-brace. An inserted chimney made of narrow brick has a wide back-to-back floor on a chamfered axial beam in the room south of the chimney, with chamfered and stopped joists. The joists in the southern bay are rougher, with new joints possibly indicating a stair position in the southwest corner. The current stair rises from the main room, occupying space taken from the southern bay.