Farm Building 12 Metres North Of Bashall Hall

This is a farm building, dating from around 1600. It was likely originally retainers' quarters and stables, situated 12 metres north of Bashall Hall. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, with a timber-framed upper storey and a roof of stone slates. It is two storeys high.

The south wall features a jettied timber gallery on the first floor. Ground floor openings include a blocked, chamfered doorway which is now a window, a chamfered doorway, a window with plain reveals, another blocked, chamfered doorway which is now a window, and two further windows with plain reveals. The gable walls are of stone, featuring later copings and footstones, and have been extended southwards.

The east gable wall has a blocked two-light mullioned window on the ground floor and a mullioned and transomed window on the first floor with ten lights, mostly blocked, displaying both outer and inner chamfers. The north wall has later openings with plain reveals on the ground floor, with jettied timber framing above. Five windows with splayed wooden mullions are on the first floor, most of which are now blocked. The timber-framed panels, originally filled with wattle and daub, are structurally separate from the wall plate and principal posts, which contain peg holes hinting at earlier rails.

Inside, the south gallery has jowled posts with cambered timbers connecting them to the inner arcade posts. The arcade plate has holes indicating former wattle infill, now boarded. Five chamfered wooden doorways are present on one wall, four with segmental heads and one with an ogee head. The first floor is now open, featuring trusses with arch-braced ties, jowled principal posts and king posts. These trusses have been partly reconstructed above tie beam level, and wattle holes indicate they were originally closed. The wall plates have scarf joints.