Old Hall Farmhouse

LS28 WOODHALL LANE SE23NW 5E2035 PUDSEY (west side), Woodhall Hills, Calverley 2/172 Nos 13 and 15 (Old 25.5.66 Hall Farmhouse) (formerly listed as No 16 (Old Hall Farmhouse)) II Large house now 2 dwellings. Dated 1707 with alterations dated 1839. Thin coursed hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Quoins, plinth. 3-room plan, double-depth with direct-entry into 3rd cell. Nine 1st-floor windows. 1st and 2nd cell have inserted doors initialled and dated 'DP1839' and matching original doorway which has a square surround decorated with roll moulding running round the lintel and framing a panel reading "IR 1707"; casement moulded cornice. Each cell has a 5-light double-chamfered mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould to ground floor, 2 cross-windows to 1st floor, and a blind oval window with hoodmould to each floor. Coped gables with end stacks. 2 other ridge stacks. Rear has other mullioned windows and main feature of 2 doorways with shaped lintels of C17 character and possibly re-used.

Interior: largely remodelled c1839. 3rd cell has a fireplace with wide shallow arch with a cyma moulding. 2nd cell has similar fireplace but with spiral stops to the jamb moulding; the chamber above has smaller fireplace with a bolection moulding.

RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE2002535374