Slaybrook Hall

A late 15th or early 16th century farmhouse, later adapted for residential use, with alterations in the 16th century and additions in the 1910-1911 and 1925-1926 periods, the latter by Bailey and Dudley. The house is timber framed with rendered infilling and a plain tile roof, including 20th-century additions. It is of Wealden design, consisting of two roughly equal-length hall bays and a storeyed bay at the left end. A right-end bay was replaced or substantially altered in the 16th century to form two timber-framed bays.

The house has two storeys. The hall, left-end bay, and first floor of the right gable end feature close-studded timbering. Broadly-spaced studding is visible on the front of the two right-end bays. A broad, low former window sill is present on the right hall bay. The left-end bay is jettied, with the jetty returning on a plain dragon post. A short arch-brace is found at the left end of the flying wall-plate, with a 20th-century brace and bracket to the right end. The roof is hipped with a gablet to the left and a hip to the right, with a slight break between the roofs of the two sections. Modern brick stacks are situated at the rear to the left and towards the centre. A filleted brick stack protrudes from the front slope of the roof at the left end of the hall; this stack is exposed on the front elevation and corbelled out to the first floor.

The window arrangement is irregular, with four leaded casements on moulded wooden cills. A four-light, formerly five-light, ovolo-moulded mullion window is present on the left-end bay; a four-light window on the hall; and two three-light windows on the right section, all with renewed moulded wooden mullions. A blocked five-light diamond mullion window is found on the right gable end. A six-light ovolo-moulded mullion window, with a moulded cill and cornice, is located on the ground floor of the left-end bays, similar to the windows on the hall and right section, two of which have been renewed. A moulded four-centred arched doorway, featuring carved spandrels and a ribbed door, is situated on the right end of the left-end bay. Modern rear additions are present.

The interior reveals exposed timber framing. There are two four-centred arched hollow-chamfered service doorways and a similar rear doorway to the cross passage. A moulded spear with integral post and panel is visible on the right end-of-hall beam. Gerald Du Maurier and Noel Coward were reputedly guests and worked at the house.