Lockington Hall

Lockington Hall is a former mansion, originally built in 1688 for the Bainbrigge family, and now converted into offices. It was remodelled between 1797 and 1804 for Reverend Philip Storey, who added a second floor and a Tuscan colonnade, rendered the facades, and altered the window placement. Further changes occurred in 1872 with the addition of extensive service wings to the west.

The building is constructed with rendered facades and stone dressings, topped with hipped slate roofs and rendered chimneys. It is three stories high, arranged as a seven-by-five-bay design. Features include chamfered quoins, a plinth, a moulded band course on the first floor, a moulded main cornice with dentils at the second floor level, and another moulded cornice with a balustraded parapet above. The windows are 19th-century sash windows; only those on the top floor have glazing bars, all set within raised stone surrounds and keyblocks. First-floor windows are framed by moulded architraves.

The east front has a recessed central three-bay section with steps leading to an 1800 portico of paired Tuscan columns. The portico has a moulded cornice and contemporary decorative iron railings to a balcony above. All balcony windows are full height. The central entrance features double, half-glazed doors with a large rectangular fanlight, an eared architrave surround, panelled pilasters, and flanking half-piers. The fanlight incorporates ornamental cast iron glazing bars.

The north front, with five bays, has a slightly advanced central bay with a segmental pediment over the first-floor window, and a large porte-cochere added in 1872. This porte-cochere is constructed of ashlar and is arcaded, with a balustraded parapet. To the right is the ashlar front of the 1872 service wing, which is two stories high and features flanking, pedimented projections with bay windows on the ground floor and pedimented surrounds to the upper windows.

The south front shows two rectangular bay windows from 1872 and a service wing to the right, also faced with ashlar. A section of this wing is advanced and features a blind arched doorway with a pedimented surround in the return gable. The service wings have red brick end and rear walls, and white brick walls to an inner courtyard.

The interior retains a late 17th-century staircase in the upper storeys of the south wing, distinguished by turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and two knob finials to the newels. A large, late 19th-century staircase is designed in a late 17th-century style. A room on the first floor of the south wing has a fine plaster ceiling dating to around 1800, complemented by a contemporary fireplace with green and white marble and carved foxes on the central panel in the room below. The entrance hall contains a bolection-moulded marble fireplace, and other rooms have early and late 19th-century moulded ceiling cornices.