Ceddesfeld Hall

Ceddesfeld Hall is a former rectory that has been converted into a community hall. It was built in 1793 for the Reverend George Barrington. The building features painted, pebble-dashed masonry and a Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys. The entrance front is two stories high and has five bays, with a low plinth and projecting bays two and four.

The central entrance consists of a six-panel double door with three-pane sidelights, all framed by a pilaster surround. Above the door is a large semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars, and there is a raised tablet above the door inscribed to Bishop Shute Barrington of Durham, who died in 1826. The left bay has a replaced double door and radial fanlight set in a recessed, round-arched wall panel, flanked by three-pane sidelights. The right bay features a nine-pane sash window with a radial head in a similar wall panel. The other windows are twelve-pane sashes with projecting sills, and the sill of the central window is dated 1793. There are also two small shields displaying the Barrington arms. The low-pitched roof has projecting eaves and is hipped over bays two and four, with two groups of truncated ridge chimneys.

The garden front, also two stories and five bays, has a low plinth. The central three bays project and are pedimented, featuring elongated fifteen-pane sashes on the ground floor, twelve-pane sashes above, and an oculus in the tympanum. The flanking one-bay wings have shallow segmental bow windows with pilasters and twelve-pane sashes, with single twelve-pane sashes above. The roof is similar to that of the entrance front. The right return of the entrance front is pedimented and includes twelve-pane sashes and an oculus in the tympanum.

Inside, the building has been modernized but retains several eight-panel internal window shutters, six-panel doors in moulded surrounds, and a three-flight, open-well, cut-string staircase with stick balusters supporting a wreathed and ramped handrail. There is also a small square-headed fireplace in the entrance hall.

Attached to the left of the entrance front is an L-plan service wing, which has been converted into two private houses known as Shute House and Barrington Lodge.