Hassall Hall And Hassall Hall Farmhouse

A manor house, now divided into two separate houses, dating from the 17th century. The construction is primarily rendered brick with a plain slate roof. The main entrance front is symmetrical, featuring five bays. Projecting wings, each one bay wide, extend on either side and contain 3-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, dating to the 19th century. A prominent band runs between the ground and first floors, and above the first-floor windows, with additional bands highlighting the gables. Ashlar coping stones are present, adorned with 20th-century vases at the corners. The central three bays are recessed, incorporating a central ground-floor doorway with a 19th-century six-panel door; the two central panels are arched. A classical surround frames the door, featuring Tuscan pillars supporting door caps with rosettes, and an open pediment housing a fanlight. Cross-windows flank the entrance on both sides at ground and first floor level. Further bands are located at sill level and above the first-floor windows. To the left-hand side of the house, a lower, single-story section extends for three bays, featuring a catslide roof. This section has a four-by-four sash window to the far right, a late 18th or early 19th-century door and surround with six raised and fielded panels, a moulded surround, and consoles supporting a pediment. A 17th-century plank door with bolt-head decoration is situated to the left of this. Beyond is a recessed bay with four-by-four sash windows on both ground and first floors, and a further three bays of two stories with an attic, likely an addition from the 18th century. These bays incorporate a central doorway, flanked by five-by-four pane sash windows on the ground floor, four-by-four pane sash windows on the first floor, and two-light casement windows in the attic. Internally, one ground-floor room boasts 18th or 19th-century raised and fielded panelling, alongside a 19th-century fireplace with Doric half-columns, door caps, a pulvinated frieze, and a central arched overmantel with further half-columns. It features a painted wood panelled ceiling. The hall contains an early 19th-century white marble fireplace with a hob grate, and two ovolo-moulded ceiling beams. Another ground floor room features a double-ovolo-moulded ceiling beam, panelling below the dado line with run-through moulding, and is likely of late 17th-century origin. An 18th-century staircase, consisting of two flights with two balusters per tread, moulded tread-ends, a fluted newel post with a curtail, and a ramped, moulded handrail, is located off the hall. A further staircase, originally featuring splat balusters, but now lacking them, serves the farmhouse.