Mitton Hall

This is a large house, now used as a restaurant, dating from circa 1500, with substantial alterations circa 1844. It incorporates a timber-framed hall and two cross-wings. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, partly pebbledashed, with a slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic.

The left-hand (south) cross-wing features a ten-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor, alongside a three-light mullioned attic window. The right-hand cross-wing has a two-storey mullioned and transomed bay window added in 1874. The central hall is encased in stone external walls, and incorporates two two-storey gabled projections. The left-hand projection has a window on each floor illuminating the hall. The right-hand projection is a porch, with a doorway of 17th-century style, featuring a cyma-moulded semicircular arch and moulded imposts. The first floor of the hall has three mullioned windows of 17th-century style. Chimneys are located on the outer walls of the cross-wings and at the rear of the hall.

The hall was restored in 1874. The roof structure features a spherical truss with large moulded timber posts and carved braces to a cambered tie. Between the tie and principals are thin, straight, intersecting braces. The central truss has a moulded cambered tie beam with carved braces and moulded principal posts, the rear one terminating over a lateral fireplace. An aisled truss is located at the high end, with moulded half columns. The two intermediate trusses have arch braces. At the low end, there are four moulded timber doorways with Tudor-arched heads; the two left-hand doorways are now blocked by a stair leading to a later gallery. At gallery level, the low-end wall has square panels with moulded studs and rails, and decorative corner braces. The gallery runs around three sides of the hall and has a timber balustrade, which is partly of 17th-century origin. The hall fireplace features a Tudor-arched head and casement moulding.