Hoo Hall

Hoo Hall is a house dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries with 19th-century additions and alterations. The structure is timber-framed, with colourwashed render and a brick skin, and has a pantile and plaintile roof. The house is two storeys with an attic and two storeys.

The front elevation was refaced in the later 19th century with white brick. It features a near-symmetrical three-bay arrangement, including a tripartite doorway with a half-glazed door. The door has two lower raised and fielded panels and a 3x3 pane upper section. Sashes with 4x4 panes and slightly cambered splayed heads are located on either side of the entrance. Similar sash windows are on the first floor. Black pantiles cover the roof on this front. A large chimney stack with four flues rises from the ridge on the left side.

The right-hand gable end has a 4x4-pane sash window on the ground floor, a three-light casement on the first floor, and a two-light gabled dormer. A small lean-to with a late 19th/early 20th-century half-glazed door in a classical surround and pediment adjoins this. Recessed to the right is a 16th-century wing with a lean-to outshut on the ground floor, featuring a pantile roof, a doorway, a three-light window on the left, and a two-light window on the right. Above this wing are two two-light dormers divided by a king mullion.

The left-hand end is defined by two gables, one from the early 19th century, and another from the mid-19th century. The right-hand gable end has French windows on the ground floor and a 20th-century two-light casement on the first floor. A mid-19th-century wing, constructed with Flemish bond brick, features a glazed 20th-century doorway and a 3x2-pane sash window on the ground floor, mirroring the first floor’s window.

At the rear, the mid-19th-century range has 20th-century openings, including a three-light and a two-light window on each floor. The projecting 16th-century gable has a glazed door, a stable door, and a three-light casement on its flank, with a further three-light window to the left. There are two three-light casements on the first floor, likely dating to the 19th century.

The interior of the 19th-century range features raised ceilings on the ground floor, suggesting an earlier core. A central hallway has arched recesses on either side. The 16th-century wing retains chamfered ceiling beams, plain joists, and some 18th-century replacement timber to the close-studded walls.