Charles Hall

Charles Hall is a former manor house that has been converted into a farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings. It dates from around 1500, with alterations made in the mid-16th century and early 17th century. The building is two storeys high and features a three-cell cross-entry plan with a central open hall. It is constructed with timber framing and plaster, topped with plaintiled roofs. The axial chimneys were rebuilt in the mid-19th century using gault brick, featuring octagonal shafts with concave faces; the chimney for the hall has a single flue, while the one for the parlour wing has two flues. The windows are casements from around 1960, and there are 20th-century entrance doorways, including one with a gabled plaintiled porch located at the cross-entry.

Inside, the two-bay open hall has a central open truss, which includes a cambered tiebeam (though the arch-braces are missing) and an octagonal crownpost without a capital, supported by two-way plank braces. The roof is intact and shows moderate smoke-blackening. The building features good close-studding and has twin service room doorways, one of which is blocked while the other is damaged but retains part of a chamfered four-centred arch. In the mid-16th century, a wide open fireplace with a cambered lintel was added against the cross-entry, along with a fine inserted ceiling in the hall that has moulded joists and beams. An early 17th-century parlour block, designed in a cross-wing form, was added to the left side and features an ovolo-moulded bridging beam and a vestigial wind-braced butt-purlin roof. The originally hipped-roofed service cell was extended to the right in the 16th or 17th century. The manor was held by Thomas Charles around 1250, and the house is associated with an incomplete medieval moat.