Desford Hall

Desford Hall is a small country house, now used as offices, built around 1875 and converted around 1980. The building is constructed of white brick with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs along with two moulded external stacks. It has a chamfered plinth, first and second floor bands, a first floor cill band, and dentilated eaves. The house is three stories tall, with a south front that has a recessed center and slightly projecting wings.

The central entrance features a round-headed doorway with a four-panel door and a plain fanlight, flanked by single round-headed plain sash windows. This is all under a Corinthian columned porch that has a curved frieze and a balustrade parapet above. On the upper floors, there are two plain sashes in moulded ashlar surrounds with bracketed hoods. Each side of the entrance has two-storey canted bay windows with plain sashes, and above these are tripartite plain sashes with carved segmental pediments, topped by a blind circular window with keystones in curved Dutch gables.

At the center of the roof, there is a square tower with corner pilasters and a single sash window on each face, all with moulded ashlar surrounds and bracketed hoods. The tower is capped by a square leaded dome with a weather vane finial. The east and west fronts are similar, featuring an external stack flanked by a plain sash on each floor, and to the north, there are slightly projecting Dutch gabled wings with bay windows on the east side. The rear of the building has a plain two-storey service wing.

Inside, the entrance hall has a Minton tile floor and features four doorways with heavily moulded plaster surrounds and bracketed hoods. There is a segmental arch with a keystone and a small Imperial staircase, which has a single flight with two flight returns, turned balusters, and square panelled newel posts.