Whiston Hall

Whiston Hall is a manor house that has been converted into a nursing home. It has an early 16th-century core, which was encased and extended in the early 17th century, with further extensions in the 18th century and later alterations. The building features some internal timber framing, coursed dressed sandstone, and a 20th-century cement-tile roof.

The structure has an irregular plan, with a five-bay main range on the right, a cross-wing on the left, and a single-room wing set back to the far left. It stands two stories high with partial cellars and a total of seven bays on the entrance front. The main range includes a plinth, large quoins, and a first-floor band. The second bay features a 20th-century door within an architrave, topped with a dripstone above the band. To the right, there are three three-light square-faced mullioned windows on each floor with renewed casements and glazing bars; a matching two-light window above the door lacks a mullion. On the left, a large 30-pane sash window cuts through an earlier opening and rises above the band. The right end of the range has shaped kneelers, ashlar gable copings, and a renewed brick stack. There is a truncated ashlar ridge stack to the left of the door and a large corniced ridge stack to its right.

The cross-wing features large 20th-century casement windows on each floor, with a lintel band on the ground floor and a first-floor window that cuts through an earlier opening. It has shaped kneelers and chamfered gable copings, with a lateral stack on the left that has a renewed brick shaft. The projecting wing from the left return has a chamfered plinth and two-light double-chamfered mullioned windows on each floor, with the ground-floor window featuring a dripstone. This wing also has shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings, and a tall, corniced, ashlar end stack, along with a finial at the junction of the cross-wing and wing roofs. The rear elevations and the end wall of the wing include some double-chamfered window openings.

Inside, the framing of a three-bay structure is incorporated in the cross-wing and is partly visible at the foot and head of the present staircase. The loft space above the adjacent bay of the main range has a simple king-post truss without struts and sections of stud partition near the ridge stack, which may be remnants of a smokehood.