Lark Hall

Lark Hall is a house dating from the early 15th century, with later alterations and a cross wing reconstructed around 1939. The house is timber-framed and rendered, with a C20 brick and rendered cross wing. It has a plain tile roof and red brick stacks. The original H-plan consists of a 2-bay hall and cross wings, now two storeys in height. A lobby entry was formed by inserting a stack into the cross passage on the left side. A studded board door leads into the house. The windows are mostly replaced mullion and transom windows, with a swept roof visible externally. A triple diamond-set stack, likely partially rebuilt, stands prominently, alongside a further stack to the right. On the left cross wing, a cross casement is flanked by single arched lights. The first floor is jettied, featuring a three-light casement. The C20 wing displays a three-light casement and a band of pargetting. A return wall of the left cross wing contains C19 windows in a Tudor Gothic style. The rear of the house features hipped roofs to the cross wings, with a stack to the left wing.

Inside, the left service wing retains a studded partition wall and a service door with a chamfered Tudor arch. An inglenook is present under a chamfered bressummer to the rear wall, with a long shutter groove to the front wall. The hall also has an inglenook, also under a chamfered bressummer, with plastered, chamfered jambs. Two chamfered bridging beams and exposed joists are visible. The principal truss shows truncated shafts to the posts, and at the first floor level, jowled posts with large chamfered arch braces to a chamfered cambered tie beam supporting a cross-quadrate crown post. The cross wing features jowled posts with arch braces to a cambered tie beam supporting a plain, stop-chamfered crown post with braces to a purlin, now incorporated into a later partition wall. Studded walls are present within the cross wing, alongside diamond mullion mortices and a shutter groove to the front wall plate. The C20 wing contains a section of C18 stair balustrade. The hall roof shows smoke-blackening, with a cross-quadrate crown post braced to a chamfered purlin and collar, including inserted queen struts and clasped purlins.