Burton Hall

Hall: Built in the early 17th century for John Worden, with minor 19th-century additions. Constructed of English bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings, a Welsh slate roof, and four gable chimneys capped with stone. The building is square in plan and three storeys high, with a basement, and has a symmetrical three-bay front. A chamfered stone plinth is present, along with flush stone quoins and a continuous label mould at the second floor. The front is topped with a stone-coped and finialled triangular gable. The ground floor features a chamfered four-centred arched doorcase, approached by ten stone steps, with a flat hood mould containing a 19th-century oak panelled door. To either side are three-light rebated and chamfered mullioned and transomed windows with label moulds. Similar, but unrebated, windows are present on the first floor, and a blocked four-light window sits in the gable, with single lights to either side and above. Both sides have similar gables with similar windows, including mullioned windows in the plinth. Inside, the entrance leads to a small hall containing a late 17th-century dogleg oak staircase with twisted balusters, square newels, and a heavy handrail. There are four rooms on each main floor, with the room to the left of the entrance wainscotted with a cornice and wooden surround to a corner fireplace. The first floor displays heavy, deeply chamfered ceiling beams carried on moulded wooden posts and corbels. Eight-panelled doors with reeded rails are also found on the first floor. Described by Webb in 1623 as "the fair and fine conceitedly built house of brick," the hall presents the impression of a tower house and shares architectural traditions with the Little Castle at Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, but on a smaller scale.