Charlton Hall

Charlton Hall is a country house dating to the late 18th century, possibly designed by William Newton. It is constructed of tooled-and-margined stone with a Welsh slate roof. The house is symmetrical in layout, with two storeys and five bays. It features a plinth, sill bands, rusticated quoins, and a modillion eaves cornice. A panelled pier arrangement flanks a five-step approach to the central entrance, which has an old half-glazed door with a two-pane fanlight within a raised surround featuring a keyed round arch. Flanking the door are six-pane sashes, and four outer windows are longer twelve-pane sashes that break the sill band. Six-pane sashes also feature on the first floor, with the window above the door flanked by narrower two-pane sashes; all windows are set within architraves. The roof is hipped with two ridge stacks, stepped and corniced with panelled shafts. Four-bay returns are present with similar fenestration, and a plainer three-bay kitchen wing extends to the rear left. A Venetian stair window is located to the rear, with a radial head.

The interior features a Venetian screen from the entrance lobby to the hall, incorporating an archivolt key block carved with convolvulus flowers. The dining room has a fluted frieze, the drawing room an urn-and-anthemion frieze, and the library a palmette frieze. All rooms have fielded-panel doors with overdoors that match the friezes, moulded cornices, and marble fireplaces with contemporary ironwork. A dog-leg staircase is present, with two stick balusters per tread, a moulded ramped and wreathed handrail, a moulded newel, curtail step, and carved tread ends. The stair window has Ionic columns and a foliage frieze, with a Rococo ceiling rose above. The stairhead features a segmental arch to the lobby above the entrance. Bedrooms contain fielded-panel doors, marble fireplaces, and moulded cornices.

The house represents an unusually complete and unaltered late Georgian interior.