The Old Hall

The Old Hall, located at 2 and 4 Fletcher Gate, is an early 18th-century building constructed for Henry Waterland, a solicitor and multiple-time Mayor. It is made of brown brick and features a double pile design with a pantile roof that has a narrow valley and coped gables, which extend across the valley to form a parapet. The structure is two storeys high and has wooden brackets supporting the gutter. There is a slight projection at the corners and the central bay. The façade includes five ranges of cased sashes with keystones and rubbed voussoirs. The entrance door has eight fielded panels and an oblong fanlight with glazing bars, topped by a flat hood supported by elaborately carved scrolled consoles. The east side has various cased sashes and a mid-19th-century French casement with marginal glazing bars. The rear wing features a tumbled gable.

Inside, the doors throughout the building each have six fielded panels with moulded surrounds. The hall boasts a wooden cornice with modillions, and a cantilevered staircase with a moulded handrail that ramps upwards to the newels, which retain their original design with spirally gadrooned bases and octagonal knops. The wall opposite the balusters has a moulded dado, with fielded panels below. The principal ground floor room is fully wainscotted, featuring a moulded dado, dentilled cornice, and fielded panels. The door in this room is flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters. The windows have seats and shutters with fielded panelling. The room above mirrors this design, with a diagonally-placed fireplace that includes an Arts and Crafts chimneypiece, featuring tall tapering pilasters leading to the eye-level mantel shelf. Other first-floor rooms also have fielded panelling, with windows that include seats and shutters. One room has a mid-19th-century iron grate.