Bealings Hall

Bealings Hall is a house dating back to the 16th century, with additions from the 17th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, with colourwashed render and a plain tile roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with the earlier range forming the downstroke and the cross-stroke added in the 17th century.

The garden front, spanning the length of the cross-stroke, is a lower range of 17th-century origin, which has been given new window openings in the 19th and 20th centuries. A brick, gabled, single-storey porch stands to the right of centre, containing a half-glazed door with a basket-arched head and two matching relieving arches above. Moulded bargeboards decorate the porch gable. To the right is a canted bay window with a hipped roof, while to the left are two 3-light casement windows with pointed arched heads separated by a similar blind panel. Further to the left is a section of 20th-century brick walling in Flemish bond, featuring a 3-light casement window. Four 2-light gabled dormer windows are located in the roof. A 19th-century addition projects on the left. A ridge stack to the right supports three rectangular flues with chamfered edges. A gablet rises from the ridge of the older wing, adorned with decorative bargeboards and a finial.

The right-hand flank displays the 17th-century wing projecting to the left, with a blank pebbledashed gable end featuring decorative bargeboards and a mace finial. Two 2-light windows are positioned on the ground floor to the right of the gable, and a 2-light window is at first-floor level, complemented by a 2-light gabled dormer window. A porch in the re-entrant angle between the wings features a 2-light window on its left flank and a 20th-century flush-panelled door with a surround of planted timbers. The 16th-century wing has two bays with 20th-century windows, including a 3-light and 4-light casement on the ground floor and a 3-light and 2-light casement on the first floor. Between the floors of this wing is a carved jetty from which no timbers are visible. The right-hand gable of this wing contains French windows on the ground floor and a 3-light casement above.

Inside, the ground floor rooms have chamfered beams. One beam in the 17th-century wing retains wall posts and arched braces connecting to the stepped, chamfered underside. Knee-braces are located between other wall posts and beams, and several timbers have been replaced. Principals are visible in the attic.