Brandon Old Hall

Brandon Old Hall is a house dating from the early 16th century, with significant additions and alterations in 1637, the 18th century, the 19th century, and the 20th century. The construction incorporates a mix of materials: coursed dark gold bands of ironstone, light gold bands of ironstone, narrow bands of blue lias, and limestone ashlar dressings. The roofs are covered in slate, plain tile, and pantile, featuring stone coped gables, finials, slight kneelers, and two coped stone ridge stacks.

The building follows an L-shaped plan, comprised of a 16th and 17th century west range and a lower 18th and 19th century range to the rear. The west front, five bays wide, has two storeys and a garret. The ironstone banding continues up the walls around the windows, below a moulded stringcourse from the 16th century. A rectangular-headed doorway is set into an ashlar surround, leading to a panelled door, with a single rectangular window to the south and two to the north. All windows on this front have three pointed stone lights with moulded mullions. The upper storey includes narrow bands of blue lias, added in 1637, as were the quoins. The upper storey features five windows: alternating three-light and two-light mullion windows. A datestone inscribed "1637 PRE" is located between the second window from the north and the third.

The south return displays early 17th century masonry with first and second floor moulded stringcourses. Low 20th century ground floor bay windows are fitted below a three-light mullion window and another three-light mullion window in the gable. The east front has a central doorway inserted into a mullion window, leading to a plain door with a moulded cornice above. To the south of the door is a 1637 datestone accompanied by a three-light mullion window and another above. Banded masonry begins just south of the door, followed by a three-light mullion window with a cornice, another three-light mullion window above, and a two-light mullion window over the door. A small 20th century dormer with a casement is positioned over the north bay. An 18th and 19th century brick extension extends to the west, exhibiting irregular fenestration and 20th century casements with glazing bars and wooden lintels. A doorway is present in the north return.

The interior includes fragmentary screens passages and a roof with a staggered butt purlin, featuring a mutilated chamfered beam with run-out stops spanning the hall fire opening.