Troston Hall

This is a manor house, dating to the late 16th century with early 17th-century alterations, and refaced in the mid-19th century. It has a half-H shape, two storeys and attics. The front and south side are timber-framed and faced with small ornamental red tiles featuring floral motifs. The north side retains old plaster with traces of pargeting, while the rear has late 17th and late 19th-century brick extensions. The roof is tiled, with alternating bands of fishscale tiles, and features fluted bargeboards and hollow pierced pendants to the gable ends of the north and south cross-wings, which are jettied.

Mid-19th-century embellishments to the exterior include a heavy wooden cornice across the front of the hall range and along the inner sides of the wings, strips of carved boarding applied to the bressummers and corners of the wings, and three chimney stacks with ornamental shafts in different designs. A central open-fronted porch has a steeply-pitched roof banded like the main roofs, with the interior side walls covered with blank arches in Early English style. Five-light ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transome windows slightly project on the upper storey. A blocked original window, two small-paned sash windows, and one small two-light casement with 18th-century square leaded panes are located on the north side wall. The west wall of the late 17th-century brick extension features cross windows with rounded arches to their surrounds.

The interior layout was remodelled in the early 17th century with the addition of panelling and ornamental plaster ceilings. The large entrance hall has an open fireplace with a Jacobean overmantel, square panelling (partly restored), and a 19th-century boarded ceiling. The two principal rooms in the south wing have square panelling and heavily ornamented plaster ceilings. The upper room above the hall features an unusual moulded stone fireplace surround, a Jacobean overmantel with caryatids, and a decorated plaster ceiling similar in style to the others, but with an additional frieze ornamented with figures of animals and wild men. The late 17th-century rear wing contains a dog-leg staircase with heavy turned balusters and panelled sides. The plaster cornice of the stair wing has egg-and-dart and dentil details.