Hinderton Hall

Hinderton Hall is a country house, now used as offices, dating to 1856 and designed by Alfred Waterhouse. It is constructed of rock-faced coursed red sandstone with a projecting plinth, ashlar flush quoins and dressings, and has a steeply pitched green slate roof featuring fishscale slates, stone copings, stacks, and gable finials.

The entrance front is of two storeys with attics, and comprises a five-bay design flanked by gabled crosswings, with the right wing set back and the left wing projecting. The central entrance bay is three storeys high with a steeply pitched hipped roof. The entrance has paired, oak-boarded doors with strap hinges and a two-centred arched overlight, positioned under a steeply pitched porch hood supported on wooden brackets. The windows are predominantly mullioned, often in pairs, with some on the first floor positioned beneath gabled half dormers.

The garden front is dominated by a three-storey gabled bay in the centre, flanked by two-storey, three-bay ranges, the range to the right being set back, and the right end bay gabled. A mullioned and transomed five-light canted bay window is found on the ground floor of the left end, while the first floor features a window of three stepped lights in a two-centred arched opening, set beneath a tall crossgable. Central and left-of-centre bays feature four-light mullioned and transomed windows. Other ground floor windows have four lights, first floor windows have two or three lights, and those on the second floor of the centre bay have two lights. The right return presents a canted half dormer with a dated tablet recessed in the gable head.

The interior features an entrance hall with a stone fireplace having a Tudor arched opening, crenellated cresting, fluted side piers, a vine motif surround, and a dagger and multi-foil frieze. Doors are panelled, consisting of three long panels over three short panels. The drawing room houses a marble mantel on consoles and fern pilasters, with panelled walls including niches flanking the window opening, and a ceiling divided into three coffers by moulded plaster beams and patterned ribs. An open well staircase incorporates carved newels and handrails, along with a metal balustrade and galleries to three sides.