Battlesea Hall

Battlesea Hall is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a cross-wing added around 1700 on the right side, which is flush at the front. A smaller addition from the 19th century is set forward of the wing. The building has undergone alterations in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The main range is timber framed, partially plastered, and partly faced in colourwashed brick, while the cross-wing is primarily brick and nearly all colourwashed. The rear gable end was rebuilt around 1900, and the roofs are covered with plaintiles, with old tiles only on the outer slope of the cross-wing. The house has two storeys with an attic in the wing, featuring mid-20th century casement windows without glazing bars.

In the gable end of the cross-wing, next to the later addition, there is a half-glazed 19th-century door and a 20th-century open wooden porch. The internal stack has a base with inset panels on the front and rear, and a sawtooth shaft capped in the 20th century. The side wall of the wing includes a large segmental-headed window that partly illuminates the staircase, and to the right of this is an unusual arched recess with a moulded surround, raised springers, and a key, along with a blind window panel above. The interior has been significantly altered, with little of the original structure visible. However, the wing features a notable early to mid-17th-century closed-string staircase with vase balusters and square panelled newels, along with half-balusters and panelling against the wall. This staircase was likely moved from a larger house. In the 18th century, the attic served as a Roman Catholic chapel for a branch of the Fox family who lived there, and a raised gallery with various sections of reused balustrading still remains, although the pulpit and other fittings were removed in the 19th century. Additionally, part of a medieval moated system extends southeast from the house.