Old Hall

Old Hall is a hall with a core dating from 1665, significantly altered between 1925 and 1930 by Goodhart Rendel, who added a "U" shaped house that backs onto the original structure. The original section is constructed from ironstone rubble, squared and coursed, with sandstone dressings, and a stone-tiled roof. It exhibits Renaissance influence in its symmetrical, two-and-a-half-storey facade, featuring five bays with a central doorway. The ground floor has stone mullioned windows with three lights, each with a hood mould that forms a continuous string course. The first-floor windows also have stone mullions. Three dormers are positioned above, with coped gables including finials, and long, flat hood moulds to the three-light mullions. Architectural details include a plinth, moulded eaves cornice, angle quoins, coped gables, and slightly moulded stone axial and gable stacks. Additional mullioned windows are visible in the gable walls. Goodhart Rendel’s additions create a double-pile range. The wing is large, and its outer wings create recessed gables either side of the original section. The right-hand wing, dated 1925, has a steeply pitched, wide stone-tiled roof, ironstone rubble, coursed and squared with angle quoins, and various stone mullioned windows arranged asymmetrically. The masonry generally resembles that of the original building, though the left-hand wing, dated 1926, was constructed using stone from Normanton Hall and has a differently cut and laid appearance. This wing’s gable end and side elevation (three bays, one-and-a-half storeys) includes a central canted bay window with a corbelled gable above, with mullioned and transomed ground-floor windows, and a gabled dormer with finials. Decorative elements include a plinth, string course, eaves cornice, and a simple decorative frieze over all windows.

The entrance front is entirely by Goodhart Rendel, again in ironstone rubble with sandstone dressings, built to a one-and-a-half-storey, "U" plan. A central door sits beneath a gable featuring Ionic columns and a segmental, open pediment containing arms and scrollwork. Flanking either side of the central door are four-light stone mullioned windows, with a large mullioned and transomed window set at an intermediate height, incorporating outer king-mullions beneath a gable. This gable is balanced by another to the left, and all three rise above the level of the eaves. The right-hand wing has a higher ridge and houses a six-light mullioned and transomed window. The gable above the left-hand wing features two-light mullioned windows and a gabled dormer, and is topped with acorn finials.

The house sits within a garden also designed by Goodhart Rendel.