The Hall

The Hall is a house located on Ellerker Main Street, dating from the mid to late 18th century for the rear range, with a front range added around 1800, and a drawing room to the right added, possibly as a billiard room, in the late 19th century. The exterior is rendered, pebbledashed, and colour-washed, featuring stone dressings. The roofs of the 19th-century sections are covered with graduated slate, while the earlier range has pantiles.

The building is two storeys high and has five bays, with a plinth and rusticated quoins. The third bay features a canted bay that extends the full height of the house. To the right, there is a door with six raised and fielded panels and an overlight, situated in a porch with panelled piers. This porch is flanked on the extreme right by a sash window with glazing bars in a shouldered architrave. The canted bay has three similar sash windows, and there are more sash windows to the left.

A first-floor sill band runs beneath seven sashes, all with glazing bars in shouldered architraves. The building features a modillion eaves cornice and a low pediment with raked cornices at the front of the canted bay. The roof is hipped, with an axial stack. Both the right and left side walls of the front range have full-height canted bays with sash windows that have glazing bars, and a central 16-pane sash window.

To the right, there is a single-storey, two-bay drawing room extension that has two sash windows with glazing bars in eared architraves, along with rusticated quoins and a modillion eaves cornice. The side wall of this extension features a Doric doorcase leading to a French window with margin-pane glazing.

Inside, many features from around 1800 remain, including several panelled doors set in fluted doorcases adorned with paterae, rosettes, and masks. There is a cut-string staircase with scrolled tread-ends and a wrought-iron balustrade that alternates between stick balusters and elegant pelta-shaped balusters, topped with a slender wreathed handrail.