Rake Hall

Rake Hall is a pub and restaurant, originally a house, dating to the 17th century with later alterations and additions. The building is constructed of pebbledashed brick with slate roofs, a rendered plinth, and stone dressings. The central three-storey wing, facing the road, has two windows and a steep pitch to its roof. It features timber casement windows, a dormer, and rendered bands on the first and second floors, the latter being moulded. Chimneys are positioned at the gables. To the right is a lower, two-storey, four-window wing with a stone gable parapet and kneelers. It has both an original gable stack and a more recent ridge stack. A modern one-storey extension sits at the front, and to the left is a two-storey, single-window wing with a hipped roof, a canted bay, and casement windows. An added porch provides side access. The garden front comprises two wings, likely dating from the early and mid 19th century, with similar rendering and hipped slate roofs. Each wing is two storeys high and has three bays. The wing on the right incorporates a stone canted bay and oriel window under a single roof. The central bay has altered openings, and the left bay has a canted bay. Chimneys are at the ends of the left and central bays, and one is positioned on the centre ridge of the right bay. The interior has been extensively altered, but retains a portion of a 17th-century close string staircase with turned balusters and a moulded rail. The hall features rough-hewn beams supported by a Jacobean-style screen of two columns. Upper floor rooms in the 19th-century wings have six-panelled doors, simple panelled ceilings, and moulded cornices. The building was formerly the seat of the Bunbury family.