Hatherliegh Including Garden Walls And Gate To The East

Hatherliegh is an early 18th-century house, incorporating elements of a circa mid-to-late 17th-century structure, with possible earlier origins. It is located on Matfield Green, now formally addressed as "The Green, Matfield". The main block faces east and has a resulting L-shaped plan. The front and return walls of the ground floor were rebuilt in Flemish bond brick, while the first floor is tile-hung; the west end of the northwest wing is brick. The roof is covered in peg tiles, and brick stacks are present.

The house consists of a three-room main block with a central unheated entrance hall and principal rooms to the left and right, heated by end stacks. A two-phase service wing extends at a right angle to the northwest, also heated by an end stack, and a rear outshut is located at the back of the main range. The surviving timber framing on the rear wall suggests a 17th-century house was remodelled and upgraded. The service wing, possibly originally unheated, appears to have been extended or rebuilt at the west end.

The symmetrical east front has four windows and features a moulded fascia at first-floor level and a moulded eaves cornice. The roof is gabled with end stacks. A central 18th-century half-glazed front door with fielded panels is sheltered by a flat porch hood supported on moulded brackets. There is evidence of blocked windows on either side of the door, alongside four first-floor and two ground-floor 18th-century twelve-pane sash windows with margin glazing and louvred shutters. Two attic dormers, each with a cambered lead roof, moulded cornices, and two-light small-pane casements, are also present. The right return has an 18th-century half-glazed two-panel door in the gable end, while the wing features a ground floor three-light casement with square leaded panes and quadrant catches. An outshut on the main block's roof has three flat-roofed dormers, dating from the early 19th century or earlier.

Inside, the entrance hall has exposed ceiling beams with scroll stops, and the room to the right features a large open fireplace with scroll stops. A good set of 18th-century six-panel doors are throughout the house. The staircase rises from the rear of the entrance hall, within the outshut. The original framed rear wall of the main block survives to sole plate level. The red brick garden wall to the east is topped with an iron rail and spear finials. A wrought and cast iron garden gate, featuring an S-shaped diagonal brace, verticals with spear finials, and fleur-de-lis finials to the styles, completes the setting.