Pykards Hall

Pykards Hall is a house dating from the mid-15th century, with alterations made in the mid-16th century, late 17th century, and around 1970. The building is 1½ storeys tall with attics and features a timber-framed and rendered structure, partly encased in painted brick. It has a plaintiled roof with gabled casement dormers and red brick chimneys at the gable and axial positions. The windows are modern casements, and there is a 20th-century gabled plaintiled entrance porch with a boarded door.

Originally a mid-15th century three-cell open hall house, Pykards Hall has undergone significant alterations. The hall consists of two bays measuring 10 feet and 14 feet. The smoke-blackened crown-post roof is nearly complete, featuring a damaged open truss with part of a steeply-cambered tie-beam that has a moulded soffit. There is a bowtel within a great casement and an ogee, while the arch-braces are concealed or missing. The octagonal crown post lacks mouldings but has four-way arch braces, along with rising braces from the tie-beam. The closed trusses at each end have rising braces to the crown studs.

Above the parlour end, which has been altered or rebuilt, there are remnants of a hipped end with a smoke-gablet. A cross-passage entrance doorway with a four-centred head remains, now leading into an early 18th-century wing of one bay. The first floor has been inserted into the hall, and a chimney was built backing onto the cross-passage in the 16th century. The parlour end was extended southwards in the late 17th century, adding a further two-cell cross-wing with a central chimney-bay and a clasped purlin roof. The service end from the 15th century has been demolished and rebuilt longer, likely in the late 17th or early 18th century. The building was altered around 1970.