Chirbury Hall

The building is a farmhouse, dating from 1736, which incorporates an earlier structure, with 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with angle quoins and red brick dressings. The roof is slate, featuring coped verges, kneelers, and finials to the gable ends. The main block consists of four bays, with a right-hand L-shaped service range added in the 19th century. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic. The front facade has a four-window arrangement; late 19th-century casement windows are on the first floor, and 20th-century sash windows are on the ground floor, all with segmental brick heads. A 20th-century French window is located to the left, and there are four late 19th-century gabled dormers low on the roof slope. The entrance is positioned between the third and fourth windows from the left, accessed via a late 19th-century gabled timber porch with a contemporary half-glazed inner door. Axial red brick ridge stacks are present, one immediately left of the entrance and a subsidiary one between the first and second windows from the left. A datestone reading "RAP/HERES/E 1736 M" is on the left gable end.

Inside, a partly infilled inglenook fireplace in the right-hand ground-floor room features a massive carved wooden lintel with quatrefoil patterns, rose motifs, and crudely carved human figures; these carvings are likely late 16th or 17th century and possibly of monastic origin. A medieval piscina bowl is reset vertically within the window jamb. A main ground-floor room contains two chamfered cross beams with stepped stops, and panelling in a corner providing access to a cellar. Rectangular oak panelling is present in the left-hand ground-floor room, some in situ and some formerly under a chamfered spine beam that formed a partition. Further 17th-century panelling, not in its original location, forms an overmantel to a fireplace, with decorative carving including a round-headed arch motif. The early 18th-century staircase along the back wall has rather stumpy turned balusters on the first floor, with matching balusters to the attic staircase. A notable feature of the first floor is the panelling running full length of the corridor, consisting of rectangular panels with simple moulding, a motif repeated on the door to the left-end room. Cross walls are said to be timber-framed but are concealed behind plaster and wallpaper.

In the garden, a substantial number of medieval worked stones from the former Chirbury Priory are present, including pieces of window tracery, which may have been removed from the Church of St. Michael during its restoration in 1871-2. These stones are not included within the list description.