East Shefford House

East Shefford House is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensions around 1850-60. The rear of the house has a timber frame with gable-ended tile roofs, while the front has a rendered brick facade with a hipped slate roof and deep bracketed eaves. The brick stacks have bracketed cornices. The plan comprises a two-room front range with a large central stairhall, added to the front of earlier 17th and 18th century timber-framed rear ranges. The front range is in an Italianate style.

The symmetrical south west front has two storeys and a 2:1:2 bay arrangement. It features four-pane sash windows, with the ground floor windows having pilastered architraves, bracketed cills and cornices resting on consoles, and a moulded string course at this level. Smaller windows are on the first floor, with the centre window being tripartite, set in moulded architraves with bracketed cills. The central doorway has a moulded elliptical arch, a fanlight, and double doors with round-headed panes, leading to a large porch with pilasters, an entablature and an elliptical arch. Similar windows are in the end walls, with a canted bay on the southeast end. The rear gabled ranges have a mix of sash and casement windows, and a single-storey outshut.

The front range preserves elaborately moulded plaster ceiling cornices and roses, alongside much of the original joinery, including panelled doors and a large open-well, open-string staircase with shaped tread-ends, moulded balusters, newels with pendants and a moulded, wreathed mahogany handrail. The rear ranges contain exposed ceiling beams and joists, and ground and first floor rooms with some earlier linenfold panelling, reportedly from Hug Ditch Court. The roofs of the rear ranges feature principals with cambered collars and tenoned butt purlins; some timbers appear to be reused material.

A large portion of the house is from the early 19th century, with stucco on brick walls. The front is a rectangular block with an irregular earlier wing set at right angles to the rear. The ground floor features five bays of vertical sliding sash windows with raised architraves and moulded cornices, and a large central portico with a three-light sash window above.