Reed Hall

Reed Hall is a house with origins in the mid-15th century, likely built for John de Scales. It was extended around 1500 with the addition of cross wings and again around 1600. The hall range was raised and given hipped roofs in the late 17th century. Further alterations and extensions occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber-framed, rendered with some brick facing, and has clunch and brick stacks along with a machine-tiled roof.

The layout is generally 'H' shaped, originally an open hall with two-bay, two-storey cross wings added later. Around 1500, a jettied parlour cross wing was added to the right, projecting to the front and right return, featuring a curved bracket to its dragon beam. The ground floor has a six-light mullion and transom casement in a flush moulded frame, while the first floor has a similar four-light casement. The right return presents an external stack of clunch rubble and ashlar with offsets and a brick cap. Behind the stack is a glazed door and a two-light leaded casement, also with a curved bracket to the jetty. A first-floor two-light casement and a flush frame glazing bar sash are also present. An earlier wing to the hall range features a first-floor two-light casement on its inner return. The main entrance, probably in the original screens passage position, is a three-panelled door recessed within an architrave and fanlight, sheltered by a tiled pentice porch. Small-pane, flush-frame casements are also visible. Decorative panelled comb pargeting adorns the first floor, and a box dormer is present.

The left cross wing, dating to around 1600, was originally jettied to the front but underbuilt in the late 17th century and has two and three-light, flush-frame casements. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with a lower ridge than the parlour wing. Cross axial stacks are located where this wing meets the hall range, and another is on the rear slope of the hall range; both have been rebuilt. At the left end is a single-storey, slate-roofed lean-to outshuts with 20th-century brick and tiled additions.

The rear of the hall range features an extruded stack, scattered casements, two hipped dormers, and a 20th-century flat-roofed addition. The rear of the cross wings has red brick facing on the ground floor.

The interior reveals stop-chamfered bearers, jowled posts, and moulded wall plates with ashlar pieces to crown post roof with two-way, longitudinal curved braces to the early cross wing. Straight braces extend from the collars to the rafters. Elsewhere, clasped purlin roofs are present. A small, open well staircase has a late 17th-century turned balusters, moulded handrails and newel posts with vase finials. A portion of a moat remains to the south of the manor house.