Hale Close

Hale Close is a hall house, now functioning as a house, dating from around 1470 to 1500, with alterations and additions made from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and is clad in painted brick, painted plaster, painted random rubble stone, and some creosoted weather-boarding. It features a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left, with a half-hipped cross-wing at the rear and a gabled 18th-century extension to the right, along with a projecting 20th-century half-hipped wing.

There is a main brick ridge stack to the right of the main block and a secondary stack with a wide projecting breast located centrally on the front of the main block. The house has two storeys with an irregular arrangement of windows, including two on both floors of the main block and two on both floors of the subsidiary block. A 20th-century boarded and ribbed door is situated under the overhang of the former right-hand jetty, which rests on joist-ends and two curved brackets.

Inside, there is substantial evidence of timber-framing, and some internal alterations were made around 1950, reportedly by Robert Lutyens. The main block appears to have originally been a Wealden-type hall house, which was truncated later, possibly in the 17th century, at the north end.