Potters Marston Hall And Adjoining Bakehouse And Boundary Wall

Potters Marston Hall and Adjoining Bakehouse and Boundary Wall

A small country house of late 15th-century origin, significantly enlarged and remodelled around 1700, with 19th-century refenestration and additions. The building is constructed of random granite rubble, dressed stone and brick, with stone dressings and slate roofs. It features a chamfered plinth, first-floor band and moulded brick eaves.

The main structure is two storeys arranged in a U-plan with seven bays. The south-west gable contains a large external stone stack with brick stalk, and there are four brick ridge stacks.

The main north front presents a recessed three-bay centre with a notably distinguished doorcase. This comprises fluted pilasters, a moulded segmental pediment on consoles, and a Rococo-decorated frieze. The door itself has eight fielded panels and is flanked by single casements. Above are three similar casements. On either side of this centrepiece extend gabled wings, each with two casements on each floor. All the casements are 19th-century double-transomed cross casements with segmental rubbed brick heads from the 18th century.

To the left of the main range stands an early 18th-century bakehouse, two storeys high, with moulded brick eaves band, coped gable and an external gable stack. Its north front has an off-centre plank door flanked to the left by a three-light sliding sash with a segmental head, and to the right by a semi-circular oven. Further left is a lower hipped and gabled 19th-century outbuilding with a pair of 20th-century sliding doors. Between the bakehouse and the Hall runs a single-storey 19th-century outbuilding with a 20th-century glazed porch enclosure, beneath which lies an 18th-century plank door.

The hall's east end features a central two-storey 18th-century hipped projection. To its right, in the return angle, stands a six-panel 19th-century door with an overlight, covered by the 20th-century porch. Adjacent are a 19th-century cross casement and, above it, a similar casement, both with segmental heads.

The west side of the Hall has an off-centre 20th-century French window with overlight, flanked by single 19th-century cross casements in altered 15th-century stone openings. Above this runs an off-centre casement likewise flanked by single 19th-century cross casements, all within altered 15th-century stone openings.

The rear elevation is divided into several sections. To the left is a three-bay rubble section with single blocked mullioned window openings flanking the external stack. To its right stands a 20th-century French window with a segmental head. Above are two 19th-century cross casements, that to the left set within a 15th-century opening. Higher still, to the left, is a smaller blocked 15th-century opening. Beyond, to the right, a slightly projecting 18th-century brick section of four bays contains three 19th-century casements flanked on either side by blocked doors, that to the left now containing a 20th-century casement. These casements have rubbed brick segmental heads. Above them run four two-light casements, also with segmental rubbed brick heads. To the right of this is a 19th-century outbuilding with a three-light 20th-century casement, adjoining the bakehouse, which has a close-boarded door to the right and an adjoining privy with a large stone lintel.

The boundary is marked to the north by a granite rubble and dressed stone wall. The section opposite the Hall features a ramped segmental stone coping and a pair of rusticated gatepiers with ball finials and 19th-century iron gates. To the left is a smaller gateway with brick piers.

The interior is reported to contain an 18th-century cantilevered staircase.