Frogs Hall

A hall house, later adapted as a farmhouse and now a house, dating back to the early 15th century. The original open hall-house comprised a service bay and one hall bay, with an axial chimneystack and an inserted floor to the open hall added in the 17th century. An 18th-century bay was added to the northeast, and 19th-century animal houses were incorporated into the dwelling in the 20th century. The earliest part is timber-framed but now clad in painted brick or stucco, with a steeply pitched tiled roof; the northeast section is hipped with a gablet, and the southwest section has a gable. A 17th-century brick chimneystack is located in the southeast wall.

The house is two storeys high with irregular fenestration, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and casements. There are two dormers to the rear (one gabled) and one to the front. An upright post and part of a jetty, with a curved tension brace, is visible on the southeast side. A 20th-century four-panelled door is on the street side.

A painted brick square room with a pyramidal tiled roof and brick chimneystack is attached to the northeast. A large full-height early 20th-century window is on the southeast side of the 18th-century addition. Attached to the northeast is a single-storey painted brick converted animal house with three six-pane sashes with horns on the northwest side.

The interior of the earliest part reveals an early 15th-century jetty, which was once external but is now internal due to the later 18th-century addition. The end bay displays exposed ceiling beams, evidence of a former partition between a buttery and pantry, and pegholes for doors. The lounge features a central spine beam, originally the position of an inserted ceiling over the open hall, and a replaced 20th-century brick fireplace in the 17th-century chimney. The upper floors show corner posts and the top of the wall frame. A jowled post in the center of the southeast front, projecting above the floor height of the end bay, and the inserted ceiling may be constructed from a reused timber, possibly from an aisled hall. The original roof is a sans-purlin design with thin collar beams and an inserted ridgepiece; the presence of soot blackening could not be confirmed. The 18th-century addition includes an 18th-century chimney with a wooden bressumer, a four-panelled door, and a wide cambered doorway leading into the former animal house.

The site was on the Saxon shoreline until the 1380s. The house was likely built soon after a great storm altered the shoreline and provided reclaimed farmland. The name "Frogs Hall" is believed to be of 18th-century origin.