Melton Hall

Melton Hall is an early 19th-century farmhouse, likely built for Marmaduke Grayburn. It is constructed of grey brick in Flemish bond and features a pantile roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a double-depth, two-room central entrance hall on the west front and a three-room wing to the rear left. There is also a range of outbuildings around a courtyard to the rear right. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has five symmetrical bays.

The front has a plinth and a doorcase with attached tapered Doric columns that support a plain entablature and hood. The entrance features a six-panel door beneath a moulded cornice and a radial fanlight in a round-arched panelled reveal with an archivolt. The windows are unequal 15-pane recessed sashes with projecting sills and cambered wedge lintels, with a three-course band at the first floor. The first-floor sashes have 12 panes and are in similar surrounds. The eaves cornice is stepped and dentilled, and the gables are stone-coped with shaped kneelers.

On the right return, there are flush tripartite sashes with glazing bars beneath segmental brick arches on both the ground and first floors, although the left ones are 20th-century insertions. Diocletian attic windows with glazing bars are present on the left and right returns. The rear wing facing the courtyard has a six-fielded-panel door beneath a segmental brick arch, along with 12-pane, 16-pane, and tripartite sashes with glazing bars beneath segmental arches.

Inside, the stair hall at the rear features an open well staircase with a wreathed handrail, plain balusters, and a clustered newel. It has a modillion cornice and a moulded ceiling adorned with acanthus leaves and garlands. The ground floor right has a ribbed white marble chimneypiece with carved floral ornament. The main rooms are fitted with moulded cornices, panelled window shutters, and six-panel doors in architraves. A brass bell that once hung at the Hall is inscribed "E SMITH 1819," possibly indicating the date of construction.