Kersal Cell

Kersal Cell is a manor house that later became a restaurant, dating back to the 16th century with later additions. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster infill set on a sandstone base, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has axial and end wall stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of a hall range with cross-wings. Originally, it was a four-bay cruck-framed building, with the cross-wings added later. The framing is arranged in square panels, with coving below the eaves and a braced king-post roof construction in the gabled wings.

Recent restorations have replaced the window ranges on the south elevation, which now has a continuous band of windows on the ground floor and a long narrow window on the first floor, all featuring timber mullions. A doorway has been inserted to the left of the right-hand gable, which includes a renewed five-light mullioned window to the right and a canted oriel window above. The left-hand gable has a full-height canted bay window. The north elevation is made of painted brick and features Gothic-style windows with stuccoed square hoodmoulds. Inside, exposed cruck trusses are built into the end walls, and there is part of a restored plaster frieze with bold decorations to the left, including a bordered panel with vine leaves, fleur-de-lys, and an escutcheon bearing the initials E B and the date 1697. To the right are three moulded devices with large unicorn supporters. The house also contains a 17th-century staircase with intertwined twisted balusters.

Historically, Kersal Cell stands on the site of Lenton Priory, a 12th-century Cluniac house. It was once the home of John Byrom, a shorthand writer and the author of 'Christians Awake'.