Girlington Hall Farmhouse

Girlington Hall Farmhouse is a manor house that dates from the 14th or early 15th century, with the hall block likely remodeled in the 16th century and raised in the 17th century. There are minor alterations from the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is constructed of roughly-coursed rubble with cut dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof. It consists of a hall block with a west cross-wing.

The farmhouse has two storeys plus an attic and is three bays wide. The gabled left bay marks the end of the cross-wing, which has large quoins on the left and in the upper part of the right wall. There is a 20th-century door set in a 19th-century doorway in the second bay. To the right, there is a chamfered doorway and a blocked 2-light mullioned window, with a modern window between that has a medieval left jamb. The first-floor windows on the right are in 17th-century surrounds, while the left features a former 2-light trefoil-headed window with the mullion removed. The attic windows are also blocked. A ridge stack is located at the junction of the two sections, and the gable has slab coping with a finial, along with added crowsteps on the left.

The left return of the building has three bays and features 19th-century sashes, some of which have been inserted into earlier openings, along with one blocked trefoil-headed light. The rear elevation and outshut of the cross-wing display similar features. A massive external stack serves the hall range.

Inside, the farmhouse has heavy transverse beams throughout. There is a 4-centred chamfered doorway leading to a stone winder stair in the outshut. The cross-wing retains a 3½-bay original roof with trusses that have principals rising to a high collar; the inner two trusses feature broad curved principals that, along with the centre of the collar, form a 2-centred arch. The southern truss lacks a tie-beam, and the principals spring from stone corbels, suggesting there may have been an open first-floor hall or solar. The hall roof is a 17th-century reconstruction with three principal-rafter trusses that reuse medieval rafters.

Evidence from the south elevation indicates that the original 14th-century house may have had a hall block with a low eaves level, likely aisled. The shortened east end suggests a removed service bay or wing, while the absence of quoining and other features at the north-west corner of the cross-wing hint at a former garderobe.