Bedfield Hall

Bedfield Hall is a manor house with a timber-framed and plastered construction, set beneath a plain-tiled roof. It comprises a hall range with a 15th-century core, flanked by two 2-cell cross-wings that project only to the rear: a service wing to the left and a parlour wing to the right, both added in the late 16th and early 17th centuries respectively. The building stands 2 storeys high with an attic level.

The exterior displays four windows: early 19th-century 3-light casements with ogee-headed lights and square-leaded glass, one to each wing and two to the hall range. A 19th-century plastered porch imitates ashlar work, with corner piers and an ogee parapet; both carry mid 20th-century coping and spike finials. The doorway is set within a dentilled 2-centred arch and retains a plank door with studded cover battens. Both wings feature moulded tie beams carried on original carved brackets. An internal stack with an oblong shaft on a moulded base with inset panel stands within the hall; its cap was rebuilt in the mid 20th century. A second internal stack serves the service wing. The service wing displays similar 2-light windows, one retaining older diamond-leaded panes. Original mullioned windows, chiefly with ovolo moulding, survive on the parlour wing's side and rear elevations, with additional examples visible internally.

The interior preserves substantial historic fabric. Closely-spaced studding throughout shows restored 17th-century painted decoration. The parlour features an early 17th-century plaster ceiling with an encased axial beam; its soffit bears a pattern of linked squares originally painted black, crossed at right angles by a band of pea foliage, with Fleur-de-lys and Tudor rose motifs filling the four compartments. The parlour fireplace has a restored brick arch with corbelled ovolo moulding above, and evidence survives of original lining to the brick joints. The parlour chamber above retains an early 17th-century plaster ceiling with a moulded axial beam enriched with pea foliage and a perpendicular band of mixed foliage; its four compartments contain square panels with central acorn-leaf ornament. This fireplace features a stuccoed arch with quoining and cresting. Rooms behind the parlour and parlour chamber display imitation close studding painted on plaster across the party wall. The hall range's upper floor retains 15th-century studding with evidence for an original diamond-mullioned hall window. The front wall contains a blocked doorway to an upper room that once lay above an early 17th-century 2-storey porch. Two newel stairs, one in each stack, rise to the attics; the stair in the service wing remains original. In the service wing, the front chamber and its attic room above both have arched stuccoed fireplaces bearing original black paintwork.

The hall range roof is supported by two 15th-century rafter trusses, well sooted and apparently in situ; further 15th-century rafters are re-used in an adjacent partition. The roof covering the majority of the hall range is likely contemporary with that over the parlour wing, employing clasped and butt purlins with 2-way arched wind bracing; evidence indicates one original dormer in the front of the hall roof. The service wing roof has a butt purlin construction with straight wind braces. By the cross-passage stands a straight stair of around 1800 with stick balusters, a ramped and wreathed handrail, and carved tread-ends.

The building was sympathetically restored in the 1980s. A partial medieval moat survives on the site.