Red Hall

Red Hall is a farmhouse dating to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th or 19th century, and later changes in the late 20th century. The structure is largely brick with stone dressings to earlier windows, and has a stone slate roof. It comprises a two-bay main range, a taller, gabled projecting cross-wing to the left, a set-back mono-pitched wing to the right, and a later two-storey mono-pitched addition projecting from the front of the left cross-wing. A rear bay of the cross-wing has been demolished, as has the front bay of the right-hand wing, though its rear roof pitch and rear wall are now common with the main range.

The front of the house features a ground-floor arcade, likely added in the later 18th or 19th century, consisting of three round arches on square brick piers with keystones, supporting an ashlar band. Within the arcade are a four-light and a three-light chamfered mullion window, and a later entrance. Above the band is a stone shield bearing the Lowden coat of arms – three hatchets, a chain, and a scroll support – erected in the 19th century after being found on the site. Two later or altered first-floor windows, each of four lights, are also present. The gabled wing to the left has various early window openings, and to the right is a buttress, the remaining element of a former projecting wing that has been reduced to a rear bay. This rear bay contains later window and door openings, and a blocked doorway that was formerly internal. End stacks are visible on the main range.

The rear of the house has four bays. The first floor features double-chamfered windows of four, four, three, and four lights. Ground-floor windows were originally similar but were altered and lowered in the 1980s. A porch has been added. A continuous dripmould runs over the ground- and first-floor openings. To the right are the remains of the set-back cross-wing. The interior was not inspected. The house was purchased by John Lowden in 1612.