Papist Hall

This is a late 17th-century house with a later 18th- and 19th-century wing at the rear and a single-story outshut to the right. It has been altered over time and was converted into three houses. The construction is of brick in English bond, with a colourwashed finish, and has a pantile roof. The architectural style is Artisan Mannerist.

The original plan included three rooms, with a central entrance (now blocked) leading into a large central room. There's also a small stairhall to the right of a stack. Later additions include a backstairs in the passage behind the central room, and new doors into the room on the left, the central room, and the main stairhall to the right. The building is two storeys with an attic, comprising seven bays, with the single-bay outshut to the right.

The front features a rendered plinth and pilaster strips to the angles. Stone steps lead to three doors, each set beneath brick flat arches with raised brick surrounds to the upper halves. The doors are six-panel affairs, with the door to the left in a 19th-century opening that incorporates a blocked original window. The central door is also in a 19th-century opening, and the door to the right is a six-fielded-panel door with glazed upper panels, set into a former window opening. Five 16-pane sash windows are on the ground floor, within flush wooden architraves and raised brick surrounds with flat arches. A central window occupies the location of the original entrance, retaining a pilaster to the left. The surrounds to the openings are linked at the top by a 2-course brick band. The outshut has a similar 16-pane sash window under a segmental arch. The first floor has four recessed sashes and three smaller blocked openings (likely reflecting the original window size), all within similar surrounds. The surrounds and pilaster strips are linked by a raised eaves band. Some of the surrounds show traces of stucco arches and weathered moulded keystones.

The steeply-pitched roof has a 19th-century dormer with a four-pane sliding sash and boarded cheeks. Raised brick-coped gables have single-course raking bands, and wide end stacks with elaborately moulded brick cornices bearing shield motifs, along with later end stacks and an axial stack. The left return displays a pilaster strip to the right angle, a 2-course second-floor brick band, and two small attic casements with projecting 2-course brick hoods. The rear right has a window with leaded panes.

The interior includes a dog-leg main staircase with a closed string, drop-on-vase balusters, similarly-profiled splat balusters to the attic, and a pendant drop to the newel. There’s also a Chinese Chippendale fret balustrade to the back stairs landing. A wide central fireplace has a timber bressumer, and reused sections of painted 17th-century panelling are on the ground floor to the left. At the time of re-survey, the building was empty and in a state of decay.