St Clare Hall

St. Clare Hall is a house that was formerly a manor house, built in the 15th and 16th centuries in three phases. It has two storeys and features a timber-framed and rendered structure, with the 16th-century block jettied at the first floor level along the front. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and include axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The early 19th-century windows are small-pane sash, and the entrance door is panelled with a glazed upper section.

The main range from the early 16th century includes a two-bay hall with a parlour to the left. The entry has a cross-passage with a screen made of tall-panelled oak wainscotting, and the parlour has remnants of similar work. The main range features a plain crown-post roof, which was enhanced before around 1600 with principal rafters that have arch-braced collars and butt purlins.

To the right is a 15th-century crosswing with two unequal cells, where the crown-post roof has been later converted to a clasped-purlin type. The rear mid-15th-century wing consists of two bays of what was originally a three-bay solar at the first floor level; it has two damaged crown-posts with fine moulded capitals and arch-bracing to the collar-purlin, and the closed truss has deep rising braces leading up to a crown-stud.

The house is situated on a moated site that belonged to the de St. Clare family, and the current 15th-century structures may have been built later, possibly for Roger Jerveys, who died in 1493.