Picton Hall And Picton Hall Farmhouse

Picton Hall and Picton Hall Farmhouse is a former hall that has been converted into a house and farmhouse, dating from the mid 19th century with some alterations in the 20th century. The building features washed and rendered English garden wall bond brick on a red sandstone base, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof that has overhanging eaves and four brick chimneys. The south front of Picton Hall is two stories high and symmetrical, with three bays. The end bays contain 16-pane sash windows, which have trefoil-cusped tracery in the topmost panes, stone sills, and hood moulds. The tripartite doorcase, also under a hood mould, features similar tracery in the marginal and fanlights, and has an early 20th-century door. Above this, there are similar 16-pane windows, and on the road front, four of these windows are blind.

Inside, there is an open-string staircase with plain balusters and a mahogany handrail. The doors are designed with six sunk panels and simple moulded architraves, and the window soffits are panelled. To the right of the main front is a three-storey former service wing that is now a separate farmhouse, constructed of washed brick under an M-shaped roof. This wing features three-light wooden casements with weak segmental heads. The interior includes a large suite of former cheeserooms that have been converted; one room contains a pair of boilers with a cheese oven at the rear, wooden doors, and whey drainage patterns on the bottom stone shelf. The exposed ceiling beams and joists date from the mid 19th century, and the roof trusses are kingpost trusses made of sawn timber.