West Hall And Attached Dwellings Forming Part Of West Hall Fold

This is a group of houses, now divided into three dwellings, forming part of West Hall Fold. The core of the building dates back to the 15th century, with significant additions and alterations from the 17th and 18th centuries. The construction incorporates timber framing and materials including sandstone (both coursed and rubble), brick to the rear, Welsh slate, and stone slate roofs. The overall arrangement is irregular, forming an H-shaped group.

West Hall itself is a two-storey building with an attic. It has three first-floor windows, alongside a lower two-storey wing projecting to the front right, and a single-storey single-window bay at the right end. A single-storey block to the rear centre connects to a two-storey building, which has lean-to and gabled additions to its rear and now serves as two separate dwellings. Large quoins are visible on West Hall, and the front door is a panelled double door with a four-pane overlight, set within a quoined surround. The flanking windows feature projecting sills, 24-pane sashes, and flat arches. A rubble-walled wing to the front right appears to be of earlier construction, displaying small casements in the return walls, a door in the right return, and a gable with a ledge and two blocked openings beneath a truncated brick end stack. Ashlar gable copings and renewed brick end stacks are prominent on the main house. The single-window bay to the right end is roofed with stone slate.

The rear of West Hall has sections built with brick. A truncated stone buttress is situated at the junction with the lower end bay. The building to the rear is constructed from rubble and has mostly altered openings. The north-facing gable exhibits irregular quoining embedded in the lower wall and a brick gable displaying the head of a wall post and a fragment of a roof truss. This building features a stone slate roof with end stacks.

Inside West Hall, the 18th-century section contains a contemporary central staircase and a pedimented niche in the left ground-floor room. The attic features three hybrid roof trusses, combining curved principals with apexes triangulated in the form of king-post trusses. The end wall of the single-storey bay retains original wall posts, straight braces, and a cambered tie-beam; the heads of another pair of wall posts with tie beam are exposed midway through the bay, and light scantling king-post trusses are visible in the roof void.

The rear building contains a timber-framed structure, of which two bays appear to remain. The original roof structure features cross-braced crown posts; one truss remains intact with a cambered tie beam, while a middle truss of the same type is obscured by a stack. A mutilated end truss is also present. This represents a rare survival of its type in the region. Historic notes by P.F. Ryder, documented in the County Ancient Monuments and Sites Record (Sheffield, primary index no 2177), highlight the building’s significance.