Hempshill Hall

Hempshill Hall is a country house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the early 19th century and mid-20th century. The building features timber framing that is cased in brick and rendered, topped with a roof of plain tiles and slate. It has four ridge stacks, a single gable stack, and a single rear wall stack. The house is two storeys high with garrets and consists of eight bays.

The windows are primarily 19th and 20th century casements. The south front includes two ashlar buttresses with two set-offs on the right side, and a late 19th-century canted hipped bay window on the left. To the right of this bay window are four margin light French windows, followed by two additional casements. Above, there are eight leaded casements.

On the east gable, there is a lower lean-to addition from the 19th century and a boundary wall. The off-centre 20th-century door is flanked by single casements, with two additional casements above, one of which is an 18th-century leaded window. The double west gable features a mid-20th-century hipped wooden porch, with two casements on the left and a single casement on the right. Above this, there are two more casements and a garret casement.

The irregular rear elevation has a projecting bay with 20th-century windows linked to garages on the left, a hipped stair enclosure to the right, and single-storey L-plan outbuildings with 19th and 20th-century windows. Above this area, there are five casements, three of which are leaded.

Inside, the hall has two bay posts, one of which is jowled, and three stud walls, one featuring arch braces. There is an arched tie beam and four chamfered span beams. The roof is constructed with single purlin principal rafters, struts, and wind braces. The rear and attic feature 18th-century winder stairs with square newels, while the 19th-century dogleg principal stair is in the Gothic revival style, with quatrefoils in the balustrade. The house also contains 19th-century brass and marble fireplaces and eleven early 19th-century two-panel doors.