The Old Hall

The Old Hall is a large house dating from 1675-6, with later alterations, located on Coppice Lane in Queniborough. It is constructed of brick on a cobble plinth, with a Swithland slate roof. Originally an H-plan house, the building now lacks the front right-hand wing, and a central wing was added to the front elevation in the 19th century. The house is two storeys with attics. The left-hand gabled wing features eight-light wood mullioned and transomed windows on both the ground and first floors, with a two-light casement window in the attic. The gable apex is dated 1676, with the initials B over T.E. An advanced, later gabled wing adjoins the original wing, also with wood mullioned and transomed windows. A recessed bay of the original central section contains a six-light mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor and a four-light window above. A refronted gable, replacing a former wing to the right, includes a door within a wood architrave and a mullioned and transomed window above. Decorative, cyma moulded brick bands form a string course and arches over the ground and first floor windows in the original sections of the facade, continuing across the sides and rear of the house. There are massive brick central stacks and an end gable stack. The original H-plan layout is retained on the rear elevation. Symmetrical gables have decorative brick bands rising over four-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground and first floors, forming a hood mould over the attic window. The central section is recessed but also gabled and features two decorative brick arches on each floor, the ground floor arches unrelated to the single large mullioned and transomed window. A doorway is located to the right. The gable apex is dated 1675, with the initials B over T.E.

The interior contains various beamed rooms, one with an inglenook, and two original newel staircases with turned balusters. There are massive roof timbers with windbraces. A lower service wing projects to the left of the front elevation, joined to the main house by a 19th-century addition, which is likely late 17th or early 18th century in origin. The service wing is constructed of brick with a Swithland slate roof and includes former stables with three partially blocked doors and three gabled dormers in the roof. This section has a coped gable to the right. The stables feature three two-light casement windows, one original, with a segmentally arched brick head, a door with a brick arched head and a wide, shallow blank arch to its right at ground level, one other original window, and one insertion. Three dormers are positioned above. Moulded brick eaves are present, and a curved principal roof truss is visible within. Local tradition suggests the house may incorporate elements of an earlier building where Prince Rupert stayed in 1642 during the Civil War.