Langton Hall

Langton Hall is a country house built around 1660–9, extensively altered in 1800–2 and again in the early 20th century. It is constructed of ironstone and ashlared limestone with graded slate roofs, stone stacks, and coped parapets.

The east front was Gothicised in 1802. It features a three-storey, three-bay central block with an embattled parapet and moulded plinth with 1st and 2nd floor bands. The central doorway is surrounded by an embattled porch with an arched entry, internal stone benches, and a wooden screen with five-panel double doors and overlight. On either side are single two-light casements with arched lights in square frames with flush keystones, repeated on the floors above, with smaller versions at the top. To the right stands a slender octagonal extruded corner turret with a chamfered plinth, bands, embattled parapet, and weathervane. Beyond this is a three-storey projecting wing with a chamfered plinth interrupted below ground by a two-light cellar window and cellar doorway with a plank door. Above ground level the wing displays a large four-light mullioned window with hoodmould, repeated at the next floor level, with a smaller three-light mullioned window above. To the left is a large three-storey extruded corner tower with a moulded plinth, ashlar bands, embattled parapet, and quoins. It has a single two-light pointed arch window with a similar two-light window above, followed by another pointed arch window and a smaller two-light window. To the left again is a three-storey projecting wing with similar treatment but featuring two large blocked windows, one above the other, with a single sash above.

The south front is ashlared and symmetrical, measuring two-and-a-half storeys with basement and five bays. The moulded plinth is interrupted by four basement windows, the outer two blocked. A central flight of steps leads to a part-glazed door with a glazing bar overlight and hoodmould. On either side are pairs of glazing bar sashes with stone apron cills and flush keystones. Above are five similar sashes, then five smaller ones, all with flush keystones.

The west front has a plain 17th-century parapet. A single-storey addition of 1902 runs across the front, featuring large bay windows and symmetrically placed doors. Above this are three two-light windows with 17th-century surrounds, the central one with a stone lintel, and above again three two-light casements with 17th-century surrounds. To the left is a 19th-century projecting bay with a single sash window. To the left again is a blocked 17th-century two-light mullioned window. To the right the return wall of the south front displays an embattled parapet and moulded plinth with a blocked basement window, a large blocked window above, a glazing bar sash, and a small sash above, all with flush keystones.

The north front is three storeys and three bays with a large brick stack. An early 20th-century single-storey kitchen block obscures the ground storey windows. Above are visible two three-light casements with stone surrounds, the right one with a hoodmould, a single four-light window, a blocked three-light window to the left, and another three-light window to the right, all with stone mullions and hoodmoulds. The south-east angle of this wing bears a datestone marked 1660.

The interior features an entrance hall with a 19th-century Tudor revival ceiling and a late 17th-century dog-leg staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters, pulvinated string, and panelled dado. The drawing-room in the south range contains a Neo-classical fireplace. The library has a 19th-century French Rococo fireplace.

Running west from the house is a wall approximately 21 metres long and 3 metres high, constructed of ironstone rubble with moulded ashlar coping and a pointed arch doorway with plank door at its east end. Running east from the house, a similar wall screens the area in front of the house from the stable courtyard, extending approximately 20 metres with alternating buttresses and blank round-headed windows, terminating in a square embattled tower with a chamfered plinth and arrowslit window. The wall returns here and is interrupted by the stable yard gateway, continuing for approximately 12 metres to terminate in the east wall of a 19th-century stable block. On the south and west sides of the house are terraces with low ashlared retaining walls, steps with square piers topped with stone balls. The gardens are listed Grade II in the Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.