Ubbeston Hall

Ubbeston Hall, formerly known as Church Farmhouse, is a house that was originally a manor house. It dates from the mid or late 15th century and features a mid 16th-century extension at the north service end. The building has two storeys and is constructed from timber framing with plaster, showcasing fine early 18th-century cable-pattern pargetting in panels with ribbed borders. Above the entrance, there is a panel with the raised plaster date of 1721 and the initials RG. A triangular panel with raised plaster motifs, which has been removed from the external gable, is now fixed to the bakehouse chimney. The roof is thatched and includes axial and gable chimneys made of red brick from the 17th or 18th century, along with one 20th-century eyebrow dormer. The windows are mainly small-pane casements from the 19th century.

The entrance features a battened and boarded arched door from the 20th century, located at the cross-entry position, and is accompanied by an open thatched gabled porch supported by posts. Inside, the open hall consists of two bays, with an open truss that has a cambered tie-beam, wide arch braces, and an octagonal crownpost with a moulded capital and base, along with four-way plank braces. The end walls are constructed with tension-braced close-studding. The roof is smoke-encrusted and retains original plaster between the rafters. There are twin service doorways with chamfered four-centred arches. The service cell includes an additional bay, resulting in a total of four small service rooms. The end cells feature unchamfered joists and gabled crownpost roofs. A chimney was inserted around 1600, backing onto the cross-passage, and an upper floor was added over the hall, supported by ovolo-moulded beams. A cross-wing was added in the 16th century, likely containing a dairy with a cheese room above, and a two-bay bakehouse that is open to the roof, which is of wind-braced clasped-purlin form. One of the cross-entry doorways remains, featuring a four-centred arched head, and there is an internal end fireplace with a later bread oven.