Hamblyn House

Hamblyn House is a public house, later used as a mill owner's house with a shop, dating to the mid-17th century. It was partly rebuilt and extended around 1720, and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with plastered walls and a red brick front to an added range. It has steeply pitched plain tiled and machine tiled roofs. The original core comprises four bays of a three-cell cross-entry range, with a service end rebuilt as a four-bay, three-cell cross range to the left, forming an L-shape. It has two storeys and attics.

A cross passage entrance is located to the left of the earlier range, featuring a raised fielded six-panelled door, with an inner glazed and raised panelled door. A projecting hood is supported by large, early 18th-century scrolled brackets with bay leaf carved soffits. Three ground floor windows to the left are 20th-century lattice leaded casements. Four first-floor windows are 5:10-pane architraved sashes with boxed eaves. An axial ridge stack rises between the original hall and parlour, with a broached base and three conjoined hexagonal shafts. A gable end attic light is visible, with exposed double purlins.

To the left, an early 18th-century range projects slightly, featuring a shaped gable front of Flemish bond red brick. On the ground floor, a 20th-century transomed five-light lattice leaded casement replaces an earlier shopfront. A plat band is present, and the first floor has two 20th-century glazing bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads. The attic has a two-light casement with a gauged brick flat arched head, with kneelers to a coped shaped gable exhibiting lower convex curves, and steps leading up to upper concave curves. A pedimental head is also present. The left return displays some exposed timber framing on the first floor, with through tension bracing. Behind the front cell is a lean-to outshut and a ridge stack, and towards the rear is a boarded architraved door with a fanlight, alongside 20th-century sashes and casements. The rear gable end has an external 20th-century stack, with exposed plates and double purlins. A half-glazed door with a fanlight leads into the main range's cross passage, extending through a full-height early 18th-century gabled stair bay from the later range, with a gabled dormer above. The main range’s rear has a 19th-century lean-to with two single glazing bar sashes, and a 20th-century addition.

Internally, the 17th-century range has stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams, exposed studding of small scantling, a chamfered segmental headed round backed fireplace, and cyma moulded heads to posts. The early 18th-century range features a dogleg staircase of four flights, with elaborate turned balusters, square capped newel posts, and a broad moulded handrail. The front chamber on the first floor has a bolection moulded overmantel to a panelled fireplace surround, and a box cornice. The house was formerly connected to a 19th-century mill building on its left end. Part of the property lies within the former parish of Rickinghall Superior.