Carlton Hall

Carlton Hall is a lesser gentry hall-house, likely dating from the early 17th century or earlier, and restored and altered internally around 1900. The building is constructed of large, coursed blocks of squared sandstone, with a stone slate roof. It is arranged as a hall-and-crosswings plan within a rectangular shape. Originally, the main hall was a single storey with storeyed wings; it is now two storeys throughout. A chamfered plinth runs around the base, and a continuous dripmould is carried around the whole building, stepping over a very large transomed hall window of four plus four lights with a king mullion, and over a doorway in the left wing. The doorway has a moulded Tudor-arched surround (lintel restored), a heavily-studded door, and an unusual overlight of three square lights. The gable of the left wing features a restored four-light window, and the gable of the right wing has a king-mullioned window of three plus three lights. Each wing has a transomed window of three plus three lights with a king mullion at the first floor, and a two-light window was inserted at the first floor of the hall. Gable copings are present with kneelers and finials. Two ridge chimneys are visible. The left return wall of the left wing has an inserted door and window. The right return wall of the right wing includes an external chimney stack (cut down to eaves level), a two-light window at ground floor to the left, and another at the first floor to the right. The rear of the building shows vertical joints at the upper level, indicating that the rear wall of the hall was raised to two storeys. It has two two-light windows at ground floor, with a dripmould over them, and an inserted window above. The rear gables of the wings have five-light windows at ground floor, with transomed four-light windows above. The interior was almost entirely remodelled around 1900, although a floor was inserted into the hall at that time and recently removed. In the wings, there are Tudor-arched stone fireplaces in a parlour on the ground floor and a chamber above. The floors are of stone flags.