Old Hall Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

Old Hall Farmhouse and attached outbuilding is a manorial farmhouse dated 1633, with two 17th-century builds, and an attached outbuilding possibly of late 16th-century origin. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble magnesian limestone with stone slate and Welsh slate roofs, while the outbuilding has some internal timber framing.

The farmhouse has a two-storey-and-attic layout and features a symmetrical 3:2 window arrangement to the front. The earlier part of the farmhouse, on the right, has a doorway on the right side with an old door featuring patterned and studded boards within a rusticated ashlar surround. Double-chamfered, mullioned windows of 2-lights are present to the left of the door, with a blocked window beyond, truncated by a later outshut with a boarded front hatch. A double-chamfered window is in the right return, and end copings are also present. The first floor has a single-light window with a dripstone above the outshot, and a transomed 4-light window on the right. The later 17th-century part, angled back slightly, has a quoined central door with a cambered lintel, flanked on either side by a 1-light and a 2-light double-chamfered window, each with dripstones. Similar windows are on the right, with a 2-light window with a dripstone to the far right. On the first floor, a blocked, transomed single-light window is on the left, alongside two 2-light windows with dripstones. A quoined full dormer above the door features a 2-light window beneath a band and coped gable. Gable copings are present to each end of the range, flanked by truncated ashlar ridge stacks with cornices, with a smaller end stack on the right. The rear of the farmhouse features paired transomed 2-light windows with dripstones to the ground floor on the left, and altered ground-floor windows to the later range on the right. The first floor has two single-light windows and a transomed 3-light window on the left, and similar transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights on the right. Contemporary windows are present to each gable.

The outbuilding, set back on the left of the entrance front, has large quoins; a wide doorway is on the left beneath a hatch, with a double-chamfered window to its right, and a double-chamfered 2-light window to the far right. Other later door and window openings are present. The front roof slope has been replaced with Welsh slate, with a hipped end to the left dropping to a lower eaves line. A rear porch encloses a 17th-century doorway with an old door featuring moulded boards, with 2-light double-chamfered windows on the left and to the first floor. A projection on the right has a gabled inner return with a 2-light window beneath a dripstone.

Inside the farmhouse, a ground-floor room on the right has a date stone inscribed 1633 and stop-chamfered transverse beams. Some contemporary doors and panelling are also present. The outbuilding contains the remains of a 3-bay timber-framed building with two principal-rafter trusses, one retaining original infill; there are two wall posts remaining. Internal stone steps are in the left end bay. The outbuilding’s cross-wing roof has similar trusses and wind-braced purlins.