Bond Hall

Bond Hall is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber-framed structure, partially cased in brick and rendered, with a brick stack and additional elements. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building has an off-centre lobby-entry plan and consists of a six-bay frame, with two storeys and an attic, plus a single-storey addition. The front displays four bays of exposed frame, while the rest is concealed behind an addition under a catslide roof on the right side. The close-studding is notable, and the first floor is jettied, with the bressumer concealed by later timber. There is an ogee down brace on the left side of the first floor.

A painted brick gabled porch with an elliptical arch contains a half-glazed door. To the left, there are two three-light mullion and transom windows with leaded lights. On the right, a section of moulded brick plinth that originally supported an oriel window has been replaced by a three-light mullion and transom window, also with leaded lights. Small two-light blocked mullion windows are present on either side. On the first floor, there is a three-light mullion and transom window with leaded lights, along with a blocked smaller three-light mullion window to the left and a small two-light glazed window above the porch. To the right, the remains of another oriel window are visible, flanked by smaller blocked two-light windows, now replaced by a three-light mullion and transom window. The ridge stack is present, with the left gable end framing exposed and some brick nogging, along with two blocked two-light mullion windows.

Inside, the stout and good quality framing is exposed, featuring jowled posts. All beams are moulded with ovolo and hollow chamfers, some adorned with foliate stops. A room on the left has a moulded plaster ceiling decorated with motifs of a boar, ram, and fleur-de-lys. Some timber details are imported, including a fireplace with large carved head corbels and a pointed arch staircase with carved spandrels. A spiral newel stair is located adjacent to the stack. On the first floor, the framing remains exposed, with jowled posts and some arch braces to the tie beams, along with further moulded beams. Several original doors with fittings are present, including a plank door to the attic stair featuring dragon head H-hinges. The roof has clasped purlins with wind braces, and some remaining wattle and daub is visible on the gable end.