The Old Hall

The Old Hall is a house, originally a manor house, dating to circa 1620, with alterations made in the 18th century and circa 1875 by R W Johnson. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with limestone dressings and has Swithland slate roofs and stone ridge stacks. The building follows a double-depth plan.

The house is two storeys and an attic, with a seven-window front. A central six-panel door, with an overlight and moulded wooden surround, is set within a late 19th-century porch flanked by a pair of offset brick buttresses with limestone dressings. There are twelve-pane sash windows to the ground and first floors, with an oculus above the centre of the first floor. The sash windows retain stone surrounds belonging to the original stone mullion and transom windows. An ironstone plinth has chamfered limestone coping, and moulded first and second floor string courses are present. Above the second floor string are three stone-coped gables with kneelers framing three-light, ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows with hood moulds. Late 19th-century offset angle buttresses are also visible. The side elevations feature a brick string course at the second floor level with brick dentils below and curved timber brackets to projecting eaves. The right side elevation has two windows to the ground floor: the left window has an original two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom, while the right window has an 18th-century cross window. The left side elevation mirrors this with a similar window to the ground floor right and a three-light casement window to the ground floor left, featuring a stone lintel. A pair of two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion cellar windows are located to the left of centre. The rear elevation has a centrally positioned, chamfered stone doorway with a four-centred head within a later two-storey gabled porch. It also displays two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom windows to the ground and first floors, with some ground floor and first-floor windows having wood mullion and transom windows. A sash window is located on the first floor to the right of centre. The rear elevation additionally has limestone quoins.

The interior includes a reset Jacobean timber archway to the stair with Tuscan pilasters, a round-headed arch, and a bracketed quadrifioned frieze. The sitting room has Jacobean panelling and an overmantel with blank round-headed arched panels. A stone fireplace features a four-centred arched head and cut spandrels. Several cupboard doors upstairs have Jacobean panels and butterfly hinges. Another stone fireplace is found in an upper room, with a chamfer and four-centred head. A timber spiral back stair has an octagonal newel post. The roof structure includes principals with two tiers of collars.