Sparrow Hall

Sparrow Hall is a house from the 17th century with a 19th-century extension and a 20th-century lean-to. It features a timber frame covered in cement render and has a black and red pantile roof. The original layout was a three-unit lobby-entry design with a central brick chimney stack at the south end. A fourth unit was added in brick during the 19th century, along with new chimneys at both the north and south ends. Although the timber frame is not visible from the outside, it can be seen upstairs at the north end where the top of a jowled wall post is exposed. The north gable and the south gable, which is now an internal wall, appear to be intact, with small sections of the side walls also visible. The windows are all 20th-century metal windows, with some smaller ones possibly occupying original openings. There is a 19th-century or 20th-century porch with a pantiled roof on the east side. The roof structure is A-frame with one row of butt purlins.

Inside, the downstairs rooms on either side of the central chimney have north-south central beams with moulded stops. The original fireplaces on either side of the chimney have been fitted with modern grates, but there may still be original panelled cupboard doors on the northern side. Some internal doors might also be original. There are two 19th-century staircases leading to the upper floor. The bedrooms feature good 19th-century fire grates, and some original floorboards remain beneath later ones.

Historically, the house was likely divided into two dwellings in the 19th century when the southern extension was built, the gable chimneys were added, and the two staircases were installed. Early 20th-century renovations included the addition of bathrooms and kitchens, new windows were cut in—some possibly in original positions—and a wooden single-storey flat-roof extension was added. However, there have been no alterations since around 1950, and the house had been abandoned for some time, resulting in broken windows and missing tiles. Sparrow Hall is a typical example of a late 17th-century three-unit lobby-entry house, with most of its timber frame likely still intact and having undergone little alteration.