Potters Crouch Farm East

Potters Crouch Farm East is a farmhouse dating from the 15th century, originally designed as a hall house with three bays. It was extended by one bay to the west in the mid or late 17th century, during which a chimney stack was added to the hall. The building features a timber frame and stands two storeys tall, with mostly plaster walls and painted brick on the right side. The entrance includes a mid-19th century flush panel door topped with a cut bracketed hood, and there are three glazing bar casements from the same period.

Inside, the farmhouse retains a well-preserved two-bay former open hall at the center of the range. This area has three trusses, each with a crown post that supports longitudinal straight braces. The eastern crown post features inverted curved braces connecting the tie beam to the top of the post. A 17th or 18th-century stack has been inserted into the 15th-century two-storey wing near this truss, although the original stair trap remains visible in the floor beams of the cross wing. The hall fireplace is distinguished by an ovolo-moulded bressumer.