Old Hall

The Old Hall is a house dating back to the 14th century, with alterations in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with colour-washed brick and applied timber and render, and has a pantile roof and three brick ridge stacks. The building has an irregular plan, partly in a parallel range, with a two-story, seven-bay front. The fourth bay from the left projects to create a two-story porch, which contains a 20th-century six-panelled door above a three-light glazing bar casement, surmounted by a decorative plaster roundel depicting a stag. To the left of the porch are a single two-light and a single four-light 20th-century leaded windows. To the right is a pair of 19th-century glazing bar casements with segmental brick heads. The first floor has a pair of two-light and a single four-light 20th-century leaded windows to the left, and a pair of two-light casements and a 20th-century canted oriel glazing bar window to the right. A butt joint indicates that the left-hand bay is an addition. The building has undergone extensive refacings and alterations. At the left-hand rear angle, a corner post of the timber frame is visible.

The interior has two bays of timber framing surviving in the front range, with two king post trusses exposed in a two-story entrance hall, which occupies one structural bay. Two cross walls have close vertical studding with bottom and mid rails, and an exposed wall plate. The wall separating the front and rear ranges is also timber-framed, with two main bay posts exposed. In the rear part of the house, three fireplaces are grouped to serve three rooms from one stack. The front dining room features a large inglenook fireplace spanned by a chamfered beam with run-out stops. The room is panelled to full height in oak with fluted pilasters and a semi-circular cupboard with intarsia stars in the panels. The rear lounge also has two exposed bay posts and a 17th-century stone fireplace with a chamfered surround. On the first floor, a passage has exposed studding that has been reconstructed in the 20th century. The house has undergone extensive refurbishment in the 20th century; it appears likely that much of the panelling has been repositioned.