Ovington Hall And Adjacent Cottage

Ovington Hall and adjacent cottage are likely of 17th-century origin, with extensions and alterations in the 18th century. The building is constructed of rubble with cut stone dressings, partially rendered, and has graduated stone slate roofs. The original house incorporates a cottage, and has two rear wings and a ballroom extension to the north-west.

The south front is divided into two sections. The two-bay, rendered left-hand part is the original house and features a central half-glazed door with a three-pane overlight in a raised, tooled stone surround, and a stone panel over. It has four-pane sash windows. The right-hand part of four bays is irregular. It has a 20th-century French window and doorway, a boarded door at the right end, and twelve-pane sashes in stone surrounds, some of which have been renewed. The left-hand part has a steeply-pitched roof with coped gables on moulded kneelers and end stacks, the left of which is stepped and corniced, while the right has been rebuilt in grey brick on an old base. The right gable is coped with moulded kneelers and has an end stack; a stepped-and-corniced ridge stack is also present.

At the rear, the original house has two wings with stacks on the gables. The earlier right wing has a fielded-panel door and sash windows in raised stone surrounds. The added ballroom extension to the right has a single tall, twenty-four-pane sash window in a similar surround, and a coped left gable with moulded kneelers and an end stack.

The interior of the original house features heavy transverse ceiling beams. The ballroom contains a basket-arched proscenium with a Greek key frieze and imposts with paterae, a contemporary chimney-piece, folding fielded-panel shutters on butterfly hinges, a cornice with egg-and-dart moulding, and an ornamental ceiling rose.

The roof structure is not visible and may be of architectural interest.