Bexton Hall And Forecourt Walls

This is a late 17th-century house with associated forecourt walls. The house is constructed of plum-coloured English garden wall bond brick, with stone slate and slate roofs. It is two storeys high with a basement.

The entrance front is symmetrical, with five bays, the outer bays projecting as wings. A terrace, raised above the basement by a flight of seven steps, sits between the wings, and is bordered by a parapet wall flush with the front of the wings. Brick bands of three bricks depth separate the basement from the ground floor, and the ground floor from the first floor. The central doorway has a moulded wooden surround and a six-panel door with rectangular panels at the top and bottom, and two octagonal panels in the centre. A semi-circular hood is supported by acanthus-moulded consoles. Modern metal-framed casement windows are placed symmetrically on either side of the doorway and in the fronts of the wings. The original windows on the first floor were splayed-headed, and one original wooden window surround remains to the left of the front door. A central first-floor stone tablet is set within a moulded surround. Basement windows in the wings are mullioned and two-light. The wings have separate pyramidal stone slate roofs. The main body of the house has a hipped slate roof rising to a flat, lead-covered platform which originally supported a lantern.

A forecourt with walls approximately four feet high, stone coping, and an opening opposite the front door adjoins the front of the house. The left-hand side of the house has five bays, with three basement windows; one is bricked in, while the others have rendered brick mullions. A basket-arched doorway is centrally placed in the stone-walled area. The ground floor windows are cambered-headed, with one bricked up and rendered, and others featuring modern metal-framed casements. A modern metal casement occupies the first floor on the left, while the remaining first-floor windows are bricked up and rendered.

The rear has a central, projecting gabled wing with a two-light basement window. A modern replacement casement occupies the ground floor, and a similar window is on the first floor and in the attic. The right-hand side of the house mirrors the left, with outbuildings abutting the ground floor on the right.

Inside, the closed-tread, dog-leg staircase has panelled facings to the treads, twist balusters (mostly enclosed on the main runs between the ground and first floors, but visible on the basement and attic flights), and panelled newels. A small, splat-balustered flight of steps leads to the former lantern.