Ragnall Hall and attached outbuildings

Ragnall Hall and attached outbuildings

A former country house, probably the seat of the Mellish family, now subdivided into a house and attached outbuildings. The building comprises an early 17th-century core with wings and a 19th-century farmhouse addition.

The early 17th-century northern wing is constructed of red brick and ashlar, with a slate roof and single rendered ridge stack. It stands two storeys plus attic over five bays, with raised ashlar coped gables and kneelers. A moulded wooden eaves band runs beneath the eaves, and the building sits on a red brick plinth with two flush ashlar quoins on the right. The ground floor contains a single part-blocked two-light ashlar window with transom and mullion to the upper half and flush ashlar quoin surround. A doorway with elliptical arched moulded ashlar surround and 17th-century panelled wooden door with wooden keystone sits to the left, with a similar blocked window, a smaller doorway and door, and a 20th-century doorway with wooden door under segmental arch further left, with the remains of a similar window to its left. A small blocked opening and small doorway with wooden door are visible above. Two round tie plates are present. The left gable contains two Yorkshire sashes with a single ashlar cross window with flush quoin surround above, and in the attic a single ashlar lunette window. The right gable holds a single ashlar cross window and four tie plates. The early 17th-century wings are now used as storehouses.

The second 17th-century wing is attached via a low brick wall with a large glazing bar fixed light. It is constructed of red brick with flush ashlar quoins to the left and rear right, and some coursed rubble to the right base. A pantile roof with raised ashlar coped gables covers the building. Single ridge and left gable red brick stacks, with the ridge stacks rendered, are present. A wooden corbel table ornaments the structure. The wing measures two storeys plus attic over three bays. A single ashlar window with single mullion occupies the ground floor to the left, with a blocked arched entrance to the right. Above are three ashlar cross windows with dripmoulds. The rear of this wing features a single ashlar tripartite cross window with dripmoul and surround, a doorway under a flat arch with chamfered ashlar surround and dripmould, a single sash, and a blocked doorway. Two ashlar cross windows with similar surrounds are above. This wing is connected to the rear via a two-storey, two-bay red brick and slate wing.

The 19th-century farmhouse is rendered red brick with a hipped slate roof and eaves overhang. Two rendered stacks rise from the roof. The building is set on a plinth. The east front is two storeys over three bays with a first-floor band. A central later 19th-century porch sits on a plinth with a projecting central cornice. The entrance comprises an arched opening with pendant keystone, flanked by single raised roundels. Behind is an inner eight-fielded panel door and overlight. Either side are two sashes with three similar sashes above, all with wedge lintels and keystones. To the right, set back, is a two-storey single-bay wing with parapet hiding the roof line and a right pilaster rising above the parapet. A single sash with wedge lintel and keystone occupies the ground floor, with a smaller similar sash and lintel above. Further right is the left gable of the northern 17th-century wing.

Projecting from the left of the northern wing is the former malt house. Its west side has an altered opening. The east side is red brick with a corrugated roof. The slightly taller left bays partly feature dentil eaves and contain a single blocked pointed arched doorway flanked by single similar arched windows. A blocked window opening under segmental arch is above. Two tie plates are present. To the right is a lower four-bay range with a raised eaves band. A doorway and three window openings, all under segmental arches, occupy the ground floor, with four window openings above.

The rear fronts of the 19th-century and 17th-century wings form a courtyard. The rear of the north wing contains a doorway under a flat arch with stone surround and dripmould, and to the right a single ashlar cross window with similar dripmould and flush ashlar quoin surround. Above are two ashlar windows each with single mullion and similar surround. Two round tie plates are present.