Horden Hall

Horden Hall is a small manor house, dating to the mid 17th century, with possible incorporation of medieval masonry. It was likely built for Sir John Conyers (died 1664). The building is constructed of limestone rubble on the ground floor, with dressed masonry above, and has rubble returns and rear. The roof is concrete-tiled with rebuilt brick chimneys. It is arranged in an L-shape with a central cross passage and two gabled rear wings.

The front facade was originally three storeys high, but is now two storeys plus a parapet, with five bays and a central, projecting two-storey porch. A tall, chamfered plinth, dressed quoins, and continuous dripmoulds run along the front and returns. The round entrance arch is flanked by paired, detached Tuscan columns on tall plinths, supporting an entablature with a fluted frieze. The returns to the porch have single windows. Above the porch is a seven-light double-chamfered mullioned-and-transomed window, with three-light windows to the returns and a parapet. The original studded six-panel door within the porch retains its ironwork, and is set within a moulded surround with a Tudor-arched head and a single light above. Windows flanking the porch are of a similar design, with three lights and transoms. The steeply-pitched roof has raised verges and shaped kneelers.

The three-storey left return features similar windows, some of which are blocked, along with a three-light gable window under a dripstone. A single-storey rear wing has altered window openings. The right return has a pair of part-glazed doors with a three-pane mullioned overlight, a blocked door to the right, and two- and three-light windows, the last of which sits within a gable under a dripstone. The irregular rear elevation features a central three-storey stair tower with three- and four-light mullioned windows under dripstones. Demolition of a former rear wing exposed a ground-floor relieving arch and two blocked fireplaces in the left section.

Inside, a two-metre-thick rear wall, potentially medieval, is visible in the cellar. Tudor-arched fireplaces with bar stops are found in square surrounds within the former hall and parlour. Several 18th-century six-panel doors are present, and while the staircase has been renewed, two upper flights of the original mid 17th-century closed-string dogleg staircase remain, featuring a bold moulded handrail.

20th-century brick additions to the rear are not of special interest.