Doddington Hall

Doddington Hall is a country house built between 1593 and 1600 for Thomas Taylor, who was the Bishop of Lincoln's Recorder. The architect was Robert Smythson. The house is constructed of brick with stone dressings, featuring ashlar quoins and moulded bands between the floors and above the parapet. It has a leaded hipped roof with lead downpipes and plain circular cylindrical chimneys made of rubbed brick.

The building is three storeys high and has an H-plan layout. The east entrance front has 9 bays, with single bay projections at both ends, staircase towers in the returns, and a central projecting porch that rises to full height. This porch is topped with octagonal stone cupolas that have leaded roofs. The main doorway features a semi-circular headed opening with a stone surround supported by columns, which hold up an entablature topped with a strapwork gable and small obelisks. All windows are transom and mullioned with iron casements, mostly consisting of 4 lights.

The west garden front is almost identical but has 7 bays, with chimneys rising through all three storeys, replacing 2 bays. It also has a projecting central doorway, although the surround is less decorated. Internally, most of the rooms were re-modelled in the early 18th century and contain very fine architectural fireplaces, with some good quality panelling, particularly in the staircase and in the Brown Parlour.