Beaumont Hall

Beaumont Hall is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions, including red brick restorations to the right forward (southwest) wing around 1832. The building features a timber frame, with 18th-century red brick on the ground floor, weatherboarding on the first floor, and 16th-century red brick on the left return. The roofs are covered with red plain tiles.

The left return has an external red brick chimneystack and wall adorned with black header diapering, which includes a moulded crow stepped head and a concertina shaft. The diapering is mostly conventional, but features a heart motif on the right, believed locally to represent the heart of Queen Anne Boleyn, who mentioned a visit to 'Bemmets' and whose heart is said to have been buried in a wall at Erwarton Church by Sir Philip Parker of Erwarton Hall. The house has a central stack with four square corner shafts and a red brick stack on the right wing.

The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range of three-light casements with transoms, along with a similar three-window range on the right wing return. Some of these windows are original and feature diamond leading with drop-over hinges. The central doorway, dating from the 18th century, has a moulded surround and a flat canopy supported by console brackets.

Inside, the ground floor includes stop-chamfered bridging joists and a ceiling with moulded beams, moulded wall plates, and a moulded jowled storey post. There is a moulded plastered four-centre arched fire surround with a moulded finial. Traces of stencilled wall paintings were discovered during redecorations but have since disappeared. An original chamfered timber arched window is located on the rear wall of the first floor. The staircase features stick balusters, and there is an 18th-century corner cupboard believed to have come from the demolished Hostel of St Giles Chapel, which was once located on the bank of the River Stour southwest of Beaumont Hall. Many of the windows, including those in the restored right range, retain their original ironmongery and glass.