Old Hall Farmhouse

This is a 1695 farmhouse built of red brick in English bond, originally with a pantile roof and brick coped gables, one raised and two shaped, with deep kneelers to the main range. It has two gable and one axial ridge stack. The building is arranged in an L-shape around a lobby entry, and has a two-storey plus garret front with an eight-bay facade. Features include a plinth, a dentillated first-floor band, and a corbelled eaves course. The front elevation has a centrally positioned half-glazed 20th-century door with a moulded brick surround, collared pilasters, a pediment containing a rectangular brick datestone inscribed "1695," and an overlight. The band rises above the doorcase. Flanking the door are pairs of glazing bar sashes. To the right is a second 20th-century glazed door with a flat arched brick surround, pilasters, and entablature. Further to the right is another pair of sashes. All ground floor windows have flat brick arched heads. The first floor features six sashes arranged in pairs, with two smaller sashes above the main door. To the left of the front is a two-bay advanced, gabled block with a plinth and band, containing two sashes to the first floor. The decorative eaves course continues across the road elevation, which has three sashes to the ground floor and two to the first floor, with one small surviving garret window of the original pair. The rear elevation is plainer, featuring a first-floor band, a double dentillated eaves course, and six sashes to the first floor. The original interior plan likely consisted of a parlour fronting the road with an added stair bay toward the garden, followed by a hall, kitchen, and a sunken-floored dairy arranged in echelon. The parlour retains chamfered girders and floor joists. A massive H-plan stack is located between the hall and kitchen. While the kitchen joists are unmoulded, all other girders have delicate shield-shaped stops. The first-floor chambers in the parlour and hall have moulded girders and joists. The roof is a clasped purlin structure with collars, pegged at the ridge, and wattle and daub partitions in the roof space. Graffiti on the first floor, above the main doorway, bears the inscription 'Joseph Hooton 1695', identifying him as a builder from Marton.