Hetton Hall

Hetton Hall is a house dating back to the 15th century, with significant additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The construction combines dressed stone and rubble, with a rendered facade, and a Welsh slate roof. At the heart of the house is a tower, surrounded by wings on the left, right, and rear.

The tower itself is three stories high, featuring a semicircular spiral staircase projection from the first floor upwards. This projection rests on a large, semicircular corbel with ovolo mouldings, and was originally corbelled out further to support a square turret, which has since disappeared. The left return at parapet level has rounded corbels. The original parapet is gone, and the roof was likely rebuilt in the 16th century. Gable ends have splayed coping, and a small window with a moulded 16th-century surround. The windows are mainly 12-pane sashes, with two per floor, and a smaller 12-pane sash in the staircase projection.

An 18th- or early 19th-century service and farm wing extends to the left, exhibiting 12-pane sashes between 19th-century buttresses. It includes a round-arched doorway to the rear and a segmental carriage entry. A mid-19th-century range to the right of the tower incorporates Victorian mullioned windows on the right return, though earlier sashes are present on the front. A 19th-century staircase projection to the rear of the tower features windows set into older masonry, alongside some blocked windows. A mid-19th-century wing extends to the rear, and there is a Victorian porch.

Inside the tower, the original structure remains intact, with walls approximately 6 feet thick. To the right of the tower, a passage is followed by another wall of a similar thickness, containing a large blocked chimney facing a room beyond. Early masonry is visible in the roof space of this range. All doors to the tower and older wing are 6-panelled, and most windows have internal shutters. Later 19th-century doors are found at the rear of the house. On the second floor of the tower, an early 18th-century fireplace with bolection moulding is present, and in the roof space, a fireplace with chamfered jambs and a Tudor-arched lintel. The original stone staircase is gone, but the newel post remains. Early 19th-century staircases are now located in the front and rear projections. A tunnel-vaulted ground floor remains in part, currently visible from the garage.