Park Hall

Park Hall is a small country house, now operating as an hotel, dating to the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings, and has stone slate roofs with a variety of stone ridge stacks. The building features stone coped gables with ball finials. The building is square in plan, with three gables on each facade. It has three storeys, accentuated by first and second-floor bands. The garden elevation presents three square bays, rising through two storeys and incorporating castellated parapets. The central bay has a round arched entrance with a pair of glazed doors and overlight, while the outer bays feature pairs of glazing bar sashes in ashlar surrounds. Identical window arrangements are repeated above these, and again on the third floor. The central bay is flanked by two tiers of glazing bar sashes. Three small, pointed arched windows are set into the gables, each with returned hoodmoulds. A deeply projecting, two-storey porch, mirroring the central bay of the garden front, is prominent on the entrance front, which also has glazing bar sashes. The other elevations display an irregular arrangement of glazing bar sashes, cross windows, a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window, and a 3-light mullioned and transomed window.

Inside, there is an upper flight of stick baluster staircase, and a second upper flight of back staircase with a closed string and heavy turned balusters. A dog gate with splat balusters is also present. Behind the back stairs, a stone spiral staircase ascends to the roof. The interior also boasts a plaster cornice. “Lord Byron’s room” contains early 18th-century oak panelling and a bolection moulded fireplace. The functions room features a 19th-century Rococo chimneypiece. The main bar has a stone bolection moulded fireplace with a built-in back dated 1656, along with 17th-century panelling. The room above the bar is fitted with 17th-century style panelling and an elaborate 19th-century Rococo chimneypiece.