Hall Farmhouse

Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century. It is timber framed and encased in red brick from the early 19th century, topped with a clay plain-tiled roof. The building features 19th-century casement windows and two panelled entrance doors with flat canopies. At the northeast end, there is a gable with a massive chimney stack made of Barnack limestone ashlar up to the eaves level, along with red 16th-century brickwork that includes dark diaperwork headers and crow-stepped parapets on both the gable and the stack. A 15th-century limestone quatrefoiled circle with a central face inset is present, along with three attached flattened-hexagon shafts. The northwest elevation has a similar gable and stack, but with stone only at the quoins; it formerly had three circular detached chimney shafts with raised diamond and corkscrew moulding. An axial chimney stack situated between the hall and parlour has three square diagonally set attached flues. There is also a small 17th-century rear wing made of thin pink and grey gault bricks, which has been much altered but still shows traces of two large hood-moulded windows. The wide parlour fireplace features Barnack stone jambs with engaged shafts, and there is a similar chamber fireplace above with carved shaft bases and moulded square plinths; this stone is believed to have been salvaged from a 12th-century building, possibly after the Dissolution.