Dukenfield Hall

Dukenfield Hall is a house of early and mid 17th-century date, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of plum-coloured English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings, and has a stone-slate roof. The building is 2 storeys with an attic.

The entrance front faces east and is E-shaped with three projecting gabled wings. The central wing features a segment-headed entrance with a porch to the ground floor containing a 19th-century blank doorway with iron hinges and nails. Above this is a 19th-century 3-light mullioned and transomed wooden casement window to the first floor with a lintel of headers, and a square wooden casement window to the attic. The ground floor windows to either side have paired relieving arches over each window falling in the centre but without a mullion support (apparently none ever intended), with a hood mould over all. The first floor windows have cambered arched tops with splayed heads. The left-hand wing has two ground floor windows with basket relieving arches now containing 19th-century 3-light casements with flat tops and 19th-century brickwork in the tympana, and one similar window to the first floor, with 3-light splayed-head casement windows to ground and first floor. The right-hand wing has 3-light splayed-head casement windows to ground and first floor of the right-hand wing with mullions and transoms. A string course of two rows of stretchers on one of headers extends across the whole facade. All three gable wings have stone quoins and gable cappings and balls to the apex and corners of each gable. A 2-flue ridge chimney stack stands to the left of centre, and a 3-flue ridge stack to the centre of the right-hand gable wing; both have diamond-shaped flues.

The rear facade has a gabled wing to the right-hand side with stone copings and balls at the apex and corners of the gable, a 19th-century door adjacent, and a 19th-century 4-light casement window to the ground floor and 19th-century 3-light casement window to the attic. The remaining windows are all 20th-century replacements, including three gabled dormer windows with shingles on the gable face and 2-light casements. A 20th-century gabled wing to the left is in keeping with the historic structure. The south-west front has all 20th-century fenestration including an angled bay faced with shingles. A large 3-flue chimney stack to the north-east front has three 19th-century diamond-shaped stacks.

The interior contains a central cruck-framed hall with two pairs of raised crucks, one at each end with a cambered truss above and queen posts rising to principals. The hall is divided by later 17th-century incursions including a small framing dividing wall at the north-eastern end with an adjacent stone hearth and a division into two floors with ceiling beams with run-out stops. The kitchen to the north-east has an ingle-nook fireplace with a large bead-moulded bressumer with run-out stops. The dining room has mid 17th-century plasterwork to the ceiling with two central panels on either side of a bead-moulded end-stopped beam featuring high-relief leaf-moulded oval panels with a patera in the centre, and similar smaller panels with palm leaves around the patera. Six panels to the sides bear flower and plant sprays. The staircase to the hall has ribbed newel posts and turned balusters with octagonal caps of oval section. A second similar staircase has octagonal finials of round section with repeated cotton-bobbin section to the balusters. Pargetting on the staircase panel between floors shows a leopard's mask.