Layham Hall

Layham Hall is a house dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, significantly renovated around 1930. It is timber-framed, with parts rendered and others encased in painted brick. The roof is tiled, and there are red brick stacks. The house is arranged in a U-shape and has been remodelled internally during the 20th century. The ground floor is close-studded, with rough render above. A central 20th-century gabled porch is flanked by three-light mullion and transom windows. Further mullion windows are found on the cross wings and first floor. It has a wood modillion eaves cornice and bargeboards to the gabled cross wings. An off-centre ridge stack rises from the hall range. The return walls of the right cross wing are jettied. The rear of the house has been altered with the addition of two gables, creating a balanced composition of four gables. Inside, the right cross wing has an internal jetty, indicating that the hall range is at least partly later in date and may have been widened at the front. A beam with a tongue stop is visible, along with a stone fireplace which is likely a 20th-century reproduction. A beamed ceiling is found in a rear room of the left cross wing, and there are jowled posts on the first floor.