Hales Place

Hales Place is a two-bay, end-chimney-stack house dating to the second half of the 18th century. It was refenestrated in the early 20th century, and a porch was added after the 1960s. The house is timberframed, with a Flemish bond plinth. The ground floor and side elevations are mainly weatherboarded, while the first floor of the front (south) elevation is tile-hung, incorporating one course of curved and pointed tiles. The roof is tiled, with brick chimneystacks at the ends and a catslide roof extending over the rear outshot.

The original plan comprised two rooms on each floor, with service rooms in the outshot. The front elevation has early 20th-century wooden casement windows, including triple windows on the ground floor. A gabled, brick-and-timber porch with a plank door fronts the house. The rear (north) elevation features a mid-20th-century gabled dormer with a leaded-light casement, three early 20th-century casement windows (one with a metal grille in the pantry), and a central plank door.

The interior originally had two rooms on each floor and service rooms in the outshot. A partition between the ground floor rooms has been removed, but exposed floor joists remain. The eastern part of the ground floor has a wide, open brick fireplace with a wooden bressumer, including two spice niches and a bricked-up aperture where a bread oven was once located. The western part has a smaller, cambered brick fireplace opening, likely formerly a parlour. A brick floor probably survives beneath carpeting in the western part. The outshot has plank doors and a brick floor. A half-winder staircase leads to the upper floor, providing two bedrooms at the front and a smaller room created in the mid-20th century from a void originally used for storage. One southeastern bedroom contains two cupboards with plank doors on either side of the chimney; traces of plaster suggest that a fireplace was removed from this room, indicating it was originally heated, while the southwestern bedroom appears not to have been heated.

Historically, Hales Place was associated with Hales Place Farm, possibly from the early 20th century, and served as the farm manager's house.