Tostock Old Hall

Tostock Old Hall is a former farmhouse and manor house dating from the late 16th century or around 1600, possibly with an earlier 16th-century core. It underwent remodelling around 1850 in the Gothick style. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-entry plan and five windows. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a long-wall jettied upper floor. The roof is plaintiled and has three small gabled casement dormers from around 1850, while two larger dormers, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, have moulded tiebeams, acorn drop finials, and tall finials in an elongated cage form.

The external gable chimneys, which are late 16th century, are made of red brick with a diaper pattern in burnt headers and have triple octagonal shafts with original splayed capping bricks. There is an additional stack at the rear with three similar shafts. The windows, dating from around 1850, include two-light horizontally-sliding casements with small panes and diamond lights, framed by moulded architraves. The ground storey features pairs of French windows of a similar design. The left-hand gable has original ovolo-mullioned windows at three levels.

A gabled porch at the cross-entry position has finials that match those of the dormers, and there is a 20th-century glazed panelled inner door. Beneath the jetty are drop finials in alternating cage and acorn forms. At the rear, there is a staircase tower from the 16th or 17th century with a leaded glazed cross-window, along with a narrow wing and various 19th-century additions that create a complete double-pile plan. The rear doorway at the cross-entry features a late 18th or early 19th-century six-panelled door with a fanlight that has a four-centred arched head. The interior has not been examined but is believed to contain significant features, including a fine well staircase with turned balusters from around 1610, a fully-panelled chamber with an early 17th-century mantelpiece and arcaded panels, and several leaden plaques from the 16th century, approximately six inches in diameter, depicting Tudor roses, a portcullis, and the letters H and A, which are said to represent Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.