The Hall With Outbuilding, And Piers And Wall Attached

The Hall is a house accompanied by an outbuilding, garden wall, and piers, originally dating to the early 17th century, with alterations to the upper storeys around 1800. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings. The attached outbuilding has an English garden wall bond of varied courses, and the main roof is of graduated stone flags, with brick chimneys and pantiles with stone-flagged eaves on the outbuilding. The garden wall extends south from the rear of the outbuilding.

The west elevation of the house features side steps, contained within a stone-coped wall, leading to a half-glazed double door on the first floor, sheltered by a wood-bracketed hood. A large 2-centred arched stair sash above has glazing bars. The outer bays have 2-pane casements in 2-light ground-floor windows, where the mullions have been removed, revealing chamfered surrounds and floating cornices. The first floor features large wood-mullioned-and-transomed windows with upper glazing bars. The second floor has square sashes from which the glazing bars have been removed, all set beneath flat stone lintels and with slightly projecting stone sills, except for the stair window which has a stone arch and flush sill. A pyramidal roof terminates in corniced chimneys near the top of the side slopes. Returns have similar windows, except for the insertion of French windows on the right-hand side. A long right wing features a blocked brick-arched round-headed door at the front, along with two 20th-century windows and a chimney on its rear gable. The rear of the house has a central half-glazed door within a flat Tudor-arched stone surround with irregular-block jambs. Cornices are present above the flanking 2-light ground-floor windows, where the mullions have been removed, and there is a blocked window above the door. The remaining bays have cross windows. The inner return of the rear wing showcases a rubble wall with a segmental vehicle arch to the bay nearest the house. A short stretch of wall connects to form the garden boundary to the lane, linking to a blocked entrance defined by two square piers. This wall, rising to the eaves of the rear building, has flat stone capping.

The interior of the house reveals a very thick wall across the centre, supporting large stop-chamfered beams in the ground-floor rooms. A passage leads from the rear door under a segmental arch within this wall. A dogleg staircase features a narrow mahogany handrail on stick balusters and turned newels. A ground-floor room at the rear left contains a massive, stop-chamfered segmental stone fire arch. The ground floor has 2-panel doors, with 4-panel doors on the upper floors. The roof was not inspected.

Historically, William Trotter, the owner, was buried in the garden in 1713. A stone marking his death was later used to block a window in a nearby building.