Simmondley Hall

Simmondley Hall is an early 17th-century farmhouse and outbuildings, now converted into two houses, with 20th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed of narrow coursed millstone grit, partly rendered, with tooled ashlar dressings. It has a stone slate roof and diagonally set stone stacks on bases, with coped gables and kneelers.

The house originally featured a possible end baffle entry into a two-unit layout. The street front has a projecting, two-storey gabled ashlar porch to the right, with a chamfered doorway and a three-light window above. To the left is a six-light window, then an eight-light window with major mullions, above a four-light window and a three-light window. In the gable to the right is a blocked former attic window with a floating cornice. All the windows have chamfered mullions in chamfered reveals with Tudor hoodmolds.

The right return shows a rendered gable with a single light and a two-light chamfered mullion window with hoods. The left return features a single five-light chamfered mullion window and an adjoining doorway with a Tudor hoodmould to the right, with a single light window to the left. Above this is a small roundel in a square surround, and a five-light chamfered mullion window with a Tudor hoodmould to the right. A projecting gabled wing to the left has a three-light chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould on the first floor. The rendered right return of this wing has a central doorway flanked by single windows, with a three-light chamfered mullion window and a diamond plaque above. The rear elevation includes a two-light and a three-light chamfered mullion window.

Inside No. 2, the roof features a king post with trenched purlins and a small stone fireplace with a stone lintel and ovolo moulding on the first floor. The ground floor has a plain stone fireplace. No. 1’s roof was not inspected, but the first floor shows evidence of an earlier framed structure, with a tie beam cut away and a side purlin preserved. There is a side purlin and tie beam to the landing and a small chamber. The main chamber has 18th-century ovolo moulded beams with "step and run out stop" detailing. The ground floor has a flag floor to the kitchen and chamfered crossbeams with step stops, although the bressumer has been replaced. A principal room has a stone fireplace with ovolo moulding (the top of which is renewed), a blocked doorway with a timber lintel and pegholes to the door surround, and a window seat with a rough guilloche frieze.