Little Hautbois Hall

Little Hautbois Hall is a country house dating to the late 16th century, with the date 1555 appearing on a later porch. It is constructed of red brick with a flint and brick plinth, and has plain-tiled and pantiled roofs. The house is two-and-a-half storeys high and has a mix of three, four and five-light hollow-chamfered brick mullion and transom windows, though much of the plaster has been repaired and renewed in the 20th century. Moulded brick drip moulds feature over the window openings.

The building comprises a two-and-a-half storey range with a later, off-centre gabled porch, which has octagonal brick and stone gable finials and a datestone indicating 1555. The front elevation has three windows, with irregularly spaced openings. Dormers with finials are present, and the centre gable has a blocked opening above a window. There are two chimney stacks on the ridge line, one opposite the entrance, with triple octagonal shafts, moulded bases and caps. Other visible features include a blocked attic gable window with a hollow-chamfered mullion and surround, parapeted gables with roll-moulded copings and octagonal finials, and two blocked windows in the north gable.

The rear (north west) elevation has three gabled dormers, with the centre dormer blocked, and many additional blocked openings. A two-storey gabled porch connects two sections of the house, and originally featured a four-centred arched opening (now blocked by a later window) with a moulded drip and a two-light window above. This porch is capped by a parapeted gable with roll-moulded coping and octagonal finials. A massive external brick stack is located at the rear of the lower wing, linked to the main roof by a pantiled extension, with a lean-to structure between the stack and the entrance porch. The lower wing has been extensively restored and features two gabled dormers with blank panels in the front elevation.

Internally, some original doors and frames remain. A solid baulk stair has been partly rebuilt and re-set within a timber-framed stairwell. The roofs of both main ranges have principal rafters with curved "cruck" braces, and butt-purlin roofs with windbraces to the lower purlin.