Coley Hall

Coley Hall is a house dating largely to the late 17th century, with a refronting in the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical nine-bay facade. It features a rolled plinth, a band, and a coved cornice with an ashlar blocking course, topped by a hipped roof. Chamfered rusticated quoins rise from the ground floor, surmounted by panelled pilaster strips. The sash windows, featuring glazing bars, are set within architraves that have small keystones and moulded lintels. The ground floor windows are detailed with aprons of dressed stone. The doorway has a shouldered architrave and a simple pediment formed from the band raking over it, and now contains a modern glazed door.

The right-hand return wall contains a string course and three bays of cross windows with double chamfered surrounds, potentially dating back to the original construction. Other bays have been altered in the mid-20th century to create a two-storey porch, incorporating a re-used doorway from the demolished Langley House in Hipperholme, dated 1692. This doorway is set within a double-chamfered mullioned window. The rear of the house appears single-aisled but was originally double-gabled, possessing mullioned and transomed windows of 14 lights. A tall stair window of 12 lights and 3 transoms is present on the rear overlooking a courtyard. Further rear windows consist of 18th-century flat-faced windows in double-chamfered surrounds.

There are three chimney stacks, one to each range of the building. Attached to the main structure is a two-storey building, possibly a former kitchen, characterized by double-chamfered mullioned windows of six lights, each with a hoodmould featuring finely modelled stops. Small, round-headed lights are centrally positioned on each floor. The rear of this attached building shows a straight joint, indicating 18th-century fabric, with two bays of five-light, flat-faced mullioned windows. One end has a coped gable with a stack, while a stack on the other gable is set with offsets.

Inside, the central room of the south facade displays fine joinery, including opposed pedimented doorcases and another with a round head and moulded imposts. These lead to a staircase with columnar newels, a ramped handrail, and tread ends treated as imposts.