Hurst Farmhouse

Hurst Farmhouse is a hall house dating from the 14th century, with a cross wing added in the 15th century. It features a timber frame that is close studded on the cross wing, with painted plaster and brick infill, a flint plinth, and a plain tile roof. The 14th-century section is two storeys high with an attic and has a large irregular frame and a gabled roof, which includes one 20th-century roof light. There is a large ridge stack on the centre right and another stack at the rear right, behind a 19th-century one-window extension. The façade has two 20th-century wood casements, one on either side of a 19th-century four-panelled door located to the centre right.

The 15th-century cross wing is two storeys tall and has a basement. It features a first-floor jetty on all three sides, supported by moulded dragon posts. The roof is hipped with a gablet and has a projecting offset stack on the left side. Each floor has one wooden casement, and there is a single light window in the basement.

The entrance is through a large rubble porch from the 14th or 13th century, located in the re-entrant angle. This porch is buttressed and has been repaired in brick, featuring a double chamfered arch with mutilated chamfered jambs, possibly with stiff-leaf capitals, and a 15th-century arched plank door.

Inside, the hall has a two-bay semi-aisled structure from the 14th century, with base-crucks and arched bracing to the screens and dais-end tie beams. The trusses have doubled bracing and scissor trusses. There is a secondary roof system from the 15th century, consisting of a crown-post collar-purlin roof with moulded cap and base to an octagonal crown post, and a collar-purlin roof over the solar end. An inserted floor over the hall has a joist inscribed with the date 1704. The interior also includes a large mounted stack, bread ovens, and two 19th-century coppers.