Cley Hall

Cley Hall is a large house dating from circa 1770, constructed of red brick with a black unglazed pantile roof. The house has five bays with a double depth, and includes rear wings on both the left and right sides. The south front presents a symmetrical facade with two storeys, a central pediment, wide eaves detailed with modillions, a hipped roof, and wide stacks located centrally to the left and right; the left stack has been rebuilt. Nine-pane sash windows with glazing bars are set under flat arches, with stone sills. There are four windows to each ground and first floor, with a sash window in the centre of the first floor. The central doorway features a six-panel door with raised and fielded panels, flanked by fluted columns, and a fanlight above with glazing bars. An open porch with a plain entablature extends across the fanlight, supported by two plain Doric columns to the front and two square Doric pilasters to the rear. The east facade comprises five bays, with the first bay of the front range projecting forward. It features nine-paned sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor and sashes on the ground floor, with the first bay window being decorative. A doorway is located in the fourth bay, above which is a six-paned sash window. The west facade also has five bays, with varied window arrangements including two early 20th-century oriel windows—one single width in the first bay and double width in bays two and three. The first floor has sashes, and the ground floor has two large tripartite sashes in bays three and four. There are two flat-roofed dormers with casements in bays one and two. Flint is incorporated into the rear wings on the north side. Interior features include a hall with a groined vaulted roof and a double-leaved interior door leading to the rear staircase, the upper part of which is glazed with margin lights, flanked by reeded pilasters. The open well staircase has a ramped, moulded mahogany handrail with a thumb groove on one side and an ivory inset to the wreathed rail above a turned newel with a reeded base and spiral decoration. Turned balusters are present on both the staircase and the first-floor gallery. Doors have two long panels with truncated corners. A front room to the west contains a plaster frieze and skirting board with a wave pattern. A single-storey addition to the west at the front is of no particular interest.