Docking Hall Including Service Court Attached To East

Docking Hall is a country house dating from the early 17th century, possibly built around 1612 for John Hare, who purchased the land from the Earl of Sussex in 1597. The building features high Victorian details and south additions made in 1858 by architect Ewan Christian, who was connected to the Hare family. The north front is constructed of red brick, while the west return and south additions are made of flint with brick dressings, topped with slate roofs.

The house is two storeys high with attics and has an 'E' plan layout. The early 17th-century north range includes a central single bay porch flanked by two bay wings and single bay cross wings, all of which are gabled. The cross wings feature one ground floor four-light and one first floor three-light casement cross window, along with one attic three-light casement. The central two-storey porch has polychrome brick and tile arches on the ground floor and a first floor casement cross window. The gable displays a coat of arms, kneelers, and a parapet with a stone pedestal that supports a kneeling heraldic beast and metal finials. The flanking gabled bays have two ground and two first floor casement cross windows, plus one attic two-light window. All windows are fitted with 19th-century plate glass.

The south return includes a flint external stack and the south gable of the 'E' plan. The five-bay south front, added in 1858, is made of flint with brick banding and dressings, featuring prominent brick octagonal stacks: three on the west and four on the east gables of the 'E' plan block, along with three and two in the valley of the south addition, and two, three, and five on the south gables.

Attached to the east is a three-bay service wing constructed of flint and brick, with a fishscale slate roof. This wing has three first floor semi-dormer gable casement cross windows and two brick stacks with two shafts. The service court at the rear features a flint and brick Gothic arch carriage gate with a prominent corbelled out brick cornice. At the north gable, there is a wash house with two-shaft ridge stacks.