Oasthouse About 30 Metres North East Of Hale Farmhouse

This is an oasthouse located about 30 metres northeast of Hale Farmhouse. It dates from the 16th century or earlier and was altered and extended in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building features a timber-framed stowage that is clad with red brick on the ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor, with red brick roundels. The roof is plain tiled, hipped to the right and gabled to the left, and has three skylights.

On the first floor, there are six shuttered window openings, a wooden casement to the right, and two French doors on the ground floor. The left side has a boarded attic loft door with a hoist and pulley above, a boarded first-floor loft door, and two carriage openings on the ground floor. The rear has four roundels with intact cowls.

Inside, there is a fine clasped purlin roof with diminished principals and wind braces, consisting of six bays, with the central right bay being double width. The wall to the roundels features a jetty on the first floor supported by inserted posts and a moulded bracket that appears to have a domestic origin. Preliminary work for conversion reportedly uncovered traces of a probable domestic building beneath the right-hand roundels. At the time of the survey, the oasthouse was being prepared for conversion to domestic use.