Waltham Hall

Waltham Hall is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with significant alterations made in the mid-19th century. Originally built with a three-room lobby-entrance plan, the house features two storeys and attics. The house is timber-framed, with a gault brick parlour block added around 1850 in a double-pile arrangement. The earlier building was partly encased to match the new construction; the rear and sides retain 18th and early 19th century plasterwork, some decorated with herringbone pargetting. The brick facade has flat pilasters with moulded capitals. The roof is plain-tiled, with crested ridge tiles and bargeboards featuring undulating soffits. The 19th-century chimneys are constructed of gault brick, with shafts arranged in groups of two and four diagonally-set squares. The house has mid-19th century casement windows, mostly with three lights, transoms and flat arches of gauged brick. Smaller pane sashes are found on the sides. A 19th-century six-panelled entrance door has an oblong fanlight and flanking brick pilasters. Original 17th-century framing members remain visible, and the roof is a butt-purlin structure with stepped purlins. Reused timber from the 15th and 16th centuries is present, including some moulded pieces. A partial medieval moat is associated with the property.