Great Bricett Hall

Great Bricett Hall is a farmhouse originally built as the hall for the Augustinian Priory of St. Leonard, and is attached to the north side of the church. The building dates to the mid-13th century, with alterations made in the early 14th century, the late 16th century, around 1770, and the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a hipped roof covered in plain tiles. The main roof features axial and end chimneys built of 19th-century red brick. The original design was a 3-cell cross-entry plan. It is a rare example of a 13th-century timber-framed domestic structure, featuring carpentry of a high quality.

At the centre is a 2-bay open hall with an integral storeyed bay to the south. A cross-entry is at the north end of the hall. The service cell was largely or entirely rebuilt around 1770. The hall originally had an aisle on the west side, while the east side had an attached structure, possibly a porch or cloister. The cross-entry incorporates a grouping of three service doorways and a fourth, smaller doorway with more elaborate carving. The doorways feature lap-jointed equilateral arches with shafts and moulded capitals; the lower doorway also has a band of dogtooth carving and mutilated foliate capitals. The closed truss above features two pairs of passing braces, with saltire braces at the centre and studwork at 1.2-metre intervals. The open hall truss has straight tie-beam braces and massive clasping passing braces. The eastern post of the hall is unmoulded, while the arcade post to the west is missing. A closed truss at the upper end of the hall is similar with divergent braces forming saltires. The truss was originally jettied into the hall over a dais, with evidence of a massive supporting archbrace. Joints include splayed and tabled scarf joints with undersquinted butts.

The medieval roof was rebuilt around 1770, but many 13th and 15th-century rafters were reused; these earlier rafters had notch-lap jointed collars and passing braces. An early 14th-century wing was added to the southwest corner, containing a solar of at least three bays, of which two remain. The main open truss has a cambered tiebeam with ovolo moulding continuing along the archbraces and applied cornice. Two slender, octagonal crownposts with roll-moulded capitals are also present. Around 1600, the west wing was truncated and extended. A mid-to-late 16th-century upper floor was inserted into the hall, with moulded joists.