Osbaldeston Hall

Osbaldeston Hall is a house, likely dating from around 1600, with remnants of a 16th-century structure and earlier elements, significantly altered in 1946. The development of the house complex is complex. The majority of the building's exterior is faced with snecked sandstone rubble, largely rebuilt during the 1946 restoration. The east and south walls of the "banqueting hall" are constructed of brick. The roof is slate-covered.

The Hall is two stories high, with the south front dominated by a long range, known as the "banqueting hall," projecting forward on the left. The east wall of this range has a stone plinth, quoins and a parapet. The ground floor features four 2-light, double-chamfered mullioned windows with hoods. Five tall windows, with plain reveals, are on the first floor. The west wall of the banqueting hall range is of sandstone rubble, with two projecting bays now under catslide roofs, containing blocked mullioned windows. Between these bays is a chimney stack projecting on stone corbels, now truncated at eaves level. A first-floor north gable wall incorporates an ovolo-moulded and chamfered mullioned and transomed window, now partly blocked. The south facade has a recessed central three-bay section with mullioned and transomed windows on both floors; all replacements dating from 1946. A central doorway bears the inscription "1946." To the right is a one-bay cross-wing, also with double-chamfered mullioned and transomed windows (C20 replacements). The interior of this wing displays some remains of timber framing. Its east wall has a projecting chimney stack. Set back to the right is a gabled wing of one bay with a mullioned and transomed window on each floor. This wing is partly cruk-framed internally.

The "banqueting hall" now lacks a first floor, exposing tie-beam trusses constructed from reused timber from a timber-framed building. The first-floor cross-wing features an elaborate plaster fireplace surround with an overmantel, incorporating terms, figures, and a shield, along with the initials "EO" and "MO." These initials are attributed to Edward and Maud Osbaldeston, who held the estates between 1575 and 1590. Walls within this wing display some evidence of original timber framing. Attic trusses have king posts rising from cambered tie beams to a yoke, braced downwards, with queen struts and wind-braced purlins. The right-hand wing exhibits cruk trusses on the first floor and in the attic; one is against the southern gable wall, while the other is partly visible on the ground floor. Both have outriders and a yoke below the apex. The northern truss has spurs to wall posts, indicating original timber framing of this wing’s walls. There is light smoke blackening on the upper parts of both trusses visible in the attic.