Old Hall

The Old Hall is a house, primarily dating from 1661. The west and south elevations are likely rendered over brick, while the rear is of brick. The front and rear wings have Welsh slate roofs, with Swithland slate to the rear of the main range. It’s a two-storeyed building with attics. The main facade is symmetrical, with five bays and three projecting gables. The outer gables each have full-height canted bay windows with hollow-chamfered stone mullions and hoodmoulds. There are two-light casement windows in the attics. A central gable, featuring a round-arched opening containing a six-panelled door, is above a single light set within a round arched recess, with the date carved in stone above. The inner bays each have a three-light casement window enclosed within a round arched recess on the ground floor, and a two-light casement above. A hipped-roofed bay was added to the left around 1930. Gable and axial brick stacks are present.

The rear of the house features a projecting wing to the left and a gable to the right, with later 19th and 20th-century extensions filling the space between. The gable is brick, decorated with a blue diaper pattern, and has a three-light horizontally sliding sash window on the ground floor, and a two-light casement on the first floor and in the attic above. All rear windows have cambered brick heads. The roof was raised in the 19th century. A further upper three-light horizontally sliding sash window is visible at the rear of the main range, above which is another decorative datestone. A hipped-gabled dormer is visible in the roof.

The left-hand wing is largely obscured by later additions but has two distinct sections. Its garden front (south side) appears to date to the early 20th century, rendered with a canted bay window to the left, a central two-light casement, and a three-light casement to the right, all within full-height round-arched recesses. Upper windows are also three-light casements set in shaped recesses. A single lower right-hand bay has a ground floor loggia and a three-light window above.

Inside, there is an oak-panelled dining room dating back to 1661, including a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround. The staircase features simply turned wood balusters, also dating from 1661. Inside are various chamfered beams, and some timber studding is visible in the rear wall.