Hoo End Farm

Hoo End Farm, now a private house, is a late medieval open hall house with a jettied western crosswing. A floor and timber-framed chimney was inserted into the hall in the late 16th century, and the roof and windows were altered at that time. The eastern half of the house dates to the 17th century, with gables; a rear lateral chimney was constructed around 1700, and an external eastern gable chimney around 1800. The structure is timber-framed with roughcast plaster, a stucco plinth, and exposed framing to the ground floor under the jettied western gable. It has a steep roof of old red tiles. The house is a long, one-and-a-half-story building facing south, with a gabled crosswing at the west end and three other gables along the front. A continuous drip stone overhangs the ground-floor windows. The eaves of the main range are level with the sills of the upper windows in each gable. There are five windows on the ground floor, each with three-light leaded casements. A classical relief roundel is above the porch, located near the middle of the house. A lean-to trellis porch leads to a six-panel flush beaded door at the lower end of the original hall. A very large internal chimney, built next to the crosswing, rises on the front slope of the roof and features a triangular central pilaster. A small timber-framed stable building is linked to the southwest corner of the house. The interior of the older part retains a smoke-blackened roof with clasped purlins. An elaborately moulded floor beam was inserted into the hall, and a 17th-century ovolo-moulded tie-beam was added across the rear gable over the hall. A bolection-moulded fireplace surround, from the later 17th century, is on the first floor of the west wing. A cambered, late medieval tie-beam and heavy flat rafters are at the east end of the hall. A stable building is connected to the southwest corner.