Langford Old Hall

Langford Old Hall is a hunting lodge, later adapted as a house, likely dating from the late 16th century, with substantial work around 1637 and alterations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a plain tile roof. There are three brick stacks and a large rubble stack at the rear. Key features include a chamfered plinth and a moulded first-floor band.

The two-storey entrance front has four windows. A projecting, corbelled-out gabled porch features rusticated ashlar jambs and a moulded impost supporting an ashlar arch with a keystone and prominent voussoirs, along with an iron gate, and a flat, moulded hood. The first floor has a pair of blocked stone cross-mullion windows, now containing two glazing bar casement windows, with a band running above. To the west is a single-storey, 18th-century projecting bay with rendered walls, a single 24-pane glazing bar sash window, and a parapet. The flanking outer bays each have single blocked stone cross-mullion windows, with a 30-pane glazing bar sash inserted in the western one. Above, on the east gable, is a single blocked stone cross casement, and on the west gable are two similar windows, each with two wooden casements in the lower lights. The east gable wall has a single stone cross-mullion window to each floor. The rebuilt west gable wall contains a single 2-light glazing bar sliding sash window, and above, in a brick gable, is a single 2-light sliding sash. The rear wall has a large coursed rubble and brick stack with four diagonal brick shafts. A later two-storey brick extension to the rear incorporates an off-centre doorway with a four-panel door, a single 2-light sliding sash window to the left, and a 15-pane sash window to the right. Above these are a single light and a 2-light sliding sash.

The interior features two moulded cross beams with elaborate moulded stops, three ashlar fireplaces with four-centred arch surrounds, and a single chamfered fire surround. A stick baluster staircase has a turned newel. Original features include 17th-century six-panel doors, late 18th-century doors with original locks, some early 19th-century four-panel doors, and a surviving early 17th-century roof structure.

Historically, the house may have been built as a hunting lodge for George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, potentially by Robert Smythson. Dendrochronological dating of timber suggests a construction date of 1637. It served as a farmhouse in the early 19th century when the interior was extensively remodelled.