Hall Farmhouse

Hall Farmhouse is a building with a mid-to-late 18th-century west front, alongside an earlier rear wing likely dating from the 17th century or before, and a 19th-century outshut in the angle. It has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The earlier section is built of stone, faced with brick, with the lower walls in English bond; the later sections are of red brick, the front being of rubbed brick in Flemish bond. It has slate roofs. The building is L-shaped, comprising a two-room wing containing a back staircase to the rear right, and a single-room outshut to the rear left. It is three storeys high, with three bays and a symmetrical design. The entrance is round-headed, featuring a six-panel door beneath a plain fanlight within a wooden architrave. It is flanked by Venetian windows with rubbed brick arches and stucco cills. The first floor features a central round-headed window flanked by similar Venetian windows. The second floor has smaller windows with rubbed brick flat arches. All windows have 19th-century plate-glass sashes. A creeper obscures the eaves and gables. The left return has a ground floor sash beneath a brick flat arch with a raised ashlar keystone. The rear wing features 19th-century sashes and 20th-century casements. Inside the rear wing is a good mid-17th-century dog-leg staircase, possibly re-set, including a moulded handrail, corniced string, turned balusters, plain newels, and contemporary oak panelling in the lower section, with mud-and-stud partitions above. The west front has an original 18th-century open-well staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail and column-on-vase balusters with square knops; also a re-set 18th-century fireplace to the ground floor left (originally from the first floor rear), with a wooden chimneypiece having a pulvinated frieze and an ornate cast iron grate. The first floor left has a wooden chimneypiece flanked by cupboards with dentilled cornices and doors with geometric glazing above fielded panels. There are 19th-century ceiling cornices, panelled doors, and window shutters to the main ground floor rooms; 18th-century fielded panel doors to the upper rooms.