Reedness Hall

Reedness Hall is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with renovations circa 1980. The building is constructed of brick in English bond, with a Welsh slate roof to the front and pantiles to the rear. The plan is approximately square, arranged as a double-depth layout with a 2-room central entrance hall facing south and twin single-room wings to the rear. It is two storeys with an attic, and has a symmetrical five-bay south front. A plinth runs along the base. Two stone steps lead to a doorcase with a plain frieze and moulded pediment, containing a 6-fielded-panel door and a 3-pane overlight. The ground floor windows are slightly recessed 12-pane sashes within flush wooden architraves, with sills and rubbed-brick flat arches. There is a stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Stone-coped gables have shaped kneelers, and corniced end stacks are present.

Inside, the entrance hall features fielded-panelled dado panelling. A substantial open-well staircase has a ramped corniced handrail, paired column-on-vase balusters to each tread, projecting tread-ends, and a fielded-panel dado. The stairhall has a coved cornice. The drawing room, on the ground floor right, has a moulded cornice, moulded skirting, an elliptical half-domed alcove with reeded pilasters and archivolt, and a good later 18th-century composition chimney-piece with a raised central panel in the frieze bearing paterae and garlands. The dining room, on the ground floor left, has a pilastered chimney-piece with a moulded cornice. A window seat with fielded panelling is located to the rear right. A moulded cornice and wooden pilastered chimney-piece are present in a first-floor room on the left, while a fine carved pine chimney-piece with festoons and paterae is found in another first-floor room on the right. This room also has fielded panelling beneath a later wall covering. It is noted that all main rooms were probably originally panelled. Panelled window shutters and fielded-and-beaded-panel doors with architraves and panelled reveals are found in the main rooms.