Hatfield College Dining-Room Block

Hatfield College Dining-Room Block is a building that dates back to the 18th century. Originally a house and later an inn, it now serves as part of a college. The structure is made of brick with painted ashlar dressings and features a graduated Lakeland slate roof. It stands two stories tall with two bays and a projecting left wing that has three bays. There are three steps leading up to a six-panelled double door set in an arch beneath a bracketed pediment in the left bay. To the right of the door is a large sash window with a thin flat stone lintel and a projecting stone sill, along with two smaller sash windows above. The left wing has three large windows on the ground floor and four smaller ones above, all of which are renewed sashes with glazing bars. The building features a high five-brick-wide band at the first floor level and a high two-brick-wide sill band. The ridge chimneys are made of renewed brick.

Inside, there is an open-string staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail supported by two vase and column balusters per tread, while the newels are fluted Doric columns. The dining room includes an enriched Venetian window case, a plaster ceiling cornice, and leafy roundels. The senior common room features a shallow bow with large windows under a stucco-decorated fluted segmental ceiling, a panelled surround, and a corniced chimney-piece made of two-colour marble with paterae and fluting.