Minshull Hall Farmhouse

Minshull Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond and features a tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in three bays. It has a weathered stone plinth and projecting quoin pilasters that are two and a half bricks wide, with similar returns to the gables and moulded stone caps below the eaves. The central bay projects and is fronted by a modern brick porch with a pitched roof and moulded barge boards.

The entrance features a six-panel bead-and-flush door with a rectangular transom light set in a heavy oak frame. The central bay has recessed sash windows with single glazing bars, stone sills, and flat gauged arches with keystones. There are also three built-up window openings: one on the ground floor and two on the first floor, flanking the central window. The attic window is altered and set in a shallow pitched gable with a shaped barge board and finial. The side bays contain pairs of sashes without glazing bars, linked under single flat arches by built-up pilaster/weight boxes. Brick bands at the first and second floor levels are three courses and two courses deep, respectively. The east gable has sashes on the ground and first floors, as well as two-light casements in the apex. The west gable features a single-storey addition and attic casements only. The gable barge boards and a square central stack complete the exterior.

Inside, the entrance hall has a panelled ceiling made of narrow bevelled beams arranged in the form of a Roman numeral II within a diamond pattern. The flooring consists of small square stone slabs set diagonally. The interior also features 17th-century oak panelling, an inglenook beam, and bevelled beams. A wide, high-quality oak open newel staircase with turned balusters is present, along with exposed timbers and passing braces in the internal walls of the staircase area. Exposed oak purlins can also be seen. In the garden, substantial remains of a moated site suggest that a larder building once occupied the area.