Poole Hall

Poole Hall is a mansion dating from 1817. It is constructed of red brick in English Garden Wall Bond, with a hipped slate roof. The main facade is three bays wide, while the south return has six bays and a recessed, lower service wing to the north with five bays. A sandstone plinth and sill band run around the building. A semi-circular, flat-roofed porch, supported by four unfluted Ionic columns, provides access to a narrow, boarded oak door. The door is flanked by narrow sash windows, and features a basket archivolt and overlight with glazing bars. Large recessed sashes with flat arches feature on the principal facades, along with a large timber canted bay window to the rear of the south return. A gutter cornice and parapet are topped with pineapple corner finials.

The Entrance Hall features a floor of diagonally laid stone slabs, panelled shutters to the entrance sashes, panelled door linings, six-panelled doors with reeded architraves, and an anthemion cornice linking to a fret on the ceiling. The Sitting Room to the right of the Entrance Hall has oak panelling, eight panels high, and a fluted frieze. The Stair Hall, at the rear of the Entrance Hall, has a floor of diagonally laid limestone slabs, six-panel elm doors with panelled linings and fluted architraves, and a geometrical staircase with limestone treads, cast iron scrollwork balustrade, and a mahogany handrail running around all four walls, with two sections as galleries. An anthemion cornice is linked by a cove to a fret on the ceiling. A domed, radial bar lantern sits over the centre of the hall, supporting a brass chandelier. The Drawing Room, to the right of the Stair Hall, is a four-bay room divided by a screen of two unfluted columns and two pilasters with Corinthian caps, supporting a decorative panelled beam. The room has panelled window shutters and plaster panelled walls, with a segmental tunnel-vaulted ceiling divided into rectangles and octagons, an acanthus wall cornice, and a double Vitruvian scroll to the ceiling; a glass chandelier is present. The Dining Room, at the rear of the Stair Hall, is a long room extending partially behind the service wing. It has oak flooring, panelled window shutters, a segmental recess at the north end flanked by beaded pilasters, a Vitruvian scroll frieze and a shell-shaped ceiling, a dado rail, a white marble mantel decorated with festoons and torches, a cornice of leaves to the wall and vines to the ceiling, and a large acanthus ceiling rose supporting a brass chandelier. The Service Wing contains an oak staircase with two turned balusters to each tread and first-floor six-panel doors.