West Hall And Attached Garden Wall

West Hall is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with extensions added in the late 17th and 19th centuries and a late 19th-century refronting. The building is timber-framed with plaster and roughcast on the front, and red brick elsewhere. It has a steeply pitched machine pantiled roof with slates to the rear. Originally built with a three-cell cross-entry plan, a further cell was added at the upper end, possibly as accommodation. Altered service bays are located to the rear, with early origins.

The front of the house has five windows. The main entrance is situated to the right of centre and is in a cross-entry position; it features a recessed and raised six-panelled door with a C19 reeded architrave and a projecting hood. A second cross-entry with a similar door and pedimental hood is at the original left-hand end. Recessed three- and four-light transomed casements are fitted with chamfered cement-rendered lintels. A ridge stack, with a rebuilt cap between the original hall and parlour, is now roughly central. The right end is roughcast with a boarded door, a two-light glazing bar casement, and a pentice. A brick outshut and loft hatch are at the left end.

The rear elevation includes an internal stack in the added cell, a cross casement, an architraved and partly glazed six-panelled cross-entry door, a four-light transomed casement, and a first-floor opening leaded casement to the original parlour. Behind the service bay is a small pantiled brick outshut and a first-floor two-light leaded casement. A two-bay service block extends behind the main hall, raised and extended in the 19th century with a broad gable to the rear. The parlour return has three- and four-light leaded casements. A service return features a boarded door, a ground-floor three-light glazing bar casement, and a first-floor part-opening metal frame leaded casement. An external stack to the rear has multiple offsets, with flanking pantiled brick oven outshuts. A further one-storey clay lump, flint and brick stable block extends further to the rear, with a black glazed and red pantiled roof and five doors.

Internally, much of the timber frame is concealed. Features include stop-chamfered axial binding beams, through tension bracing in fairly closely studded walls, an 18th-century fireplace in the hall, and a reused bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam in the added cell. On the first floor, the parlour chamber has a double bar stop chamfered axial binding beam, and there is evidence of arched bracing in the original end wall. The roof is a double purlin roof with collars to the principals.

Attached to the rear is a 19th-century flint rubble wall, approximately 2 metres high, with a rounded coping, enclosing a garden behind the upper end of the house. An attached summerhouse/shed of flint and brick, with a thatched roof and trellissed front, features wavy bargeboards.