Low Hall

Low Hall, originally a house with a tower, dates back to the 13th or early 14th century. A service area was heightened into a tower in the mid to late 15th century, and the main block was remodelled in the later 16th century and again around 1675. Significant restoration and rear extensions occurred around 1890. The building is constructed of roughly-squared stone and rubble with cut stone dressings, and has stone slate roofs.

The south elevation is divided into two parts. The left side is two storeys high with three bays arranged irregularly. The tower to the right is three storeys high. The main part of the building features three-light windows, with a two-light window replacing an earlier doorway between bays on the right; a sundial from around 1700 sits above this. To the far right are remains of a chamfered, shoulder-arched, or pointed doorway leading to the original house’s screens passage. There are 19th-century moulded corbels to the eaves, a coped gable with finials on the left end, and stepped-and-corniced left end and ridge stacks. The tower has a two-light window, three-light windows to the upper floors, and a hollow-chamfered cornice below a flat-coped parapet, topped by a hipped roof. All windows are leaded casements, set within recessed and chamfered surrounds.

The right return side shows a late 19th-century door with elaborate studding and ironwork within a renewed shoulder-arched surround, a chamfered loop on the first floor, and two stone spouts below the parapet. The left return side reveals a small window from the 13th or 14th century with a pointed arch, located to the right of a 19th-century porch.

The interior drawing room, originally the main hall, has old chamfered beams supported by 19th-century moulded corbels, and two service doorways set within broad, chamfered surrounds. The tower contains a barrel vault running east to west, with a mural stair leading to the first floor. A newel stair rises to higher levels, lit by original loops, now internal. A single jamb from the original rear through-passage door remains. One service door appears to be re-set into a rebuilt rear wall, possibly in the 16th century. Later 19th-century interior features include several fireplaces with fine carved hoods.