Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Farmhouse.
Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- idle-obsidian-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Hall, Welshampton and Lyneal
- OS grid reference
- SJ 446 330
- Coordinates
- 52.89245, -2.82488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall is a farmhouse, now a house, likely dating from the late 17th century and incorporating parts of an earlier building, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of red brick with a timber-framed gable on the left and has a slate roof. The original house may have been T-shaped, featuring a gabled range that projects to the front. A two-storey porch was added to the right of the gabled range, and the main range was extended to the right in the late 17th century, with further extensions made in the mid-to-late 19th century.
The building has two storeys. The gabled range on the left includes a collar and tie beam truss, with the tie beam featuring billet moulding. 20th-century boards are fixed to the beams, and one board on the collar has the date "1561" in 20th-century lettering. Above the tie beam, there is a small 19th-century casement window. The range to the right has two late 19th-century casements on each floor; the ground floor windows have segmental heads, while the first-floor windows are positioned directly below the eaves. There is a straight joint to the right of the left windows. A 20th-century ledged door is located on the right side of the two-storey porch, which has a crow-step gable at the front. There is also a similar door under a 19th-century gabled hood at the far left of the 19th-century extension.
A prominent red brick ridge stack features a dentilled band at the base, paired and rebated shafts, and a 19th-century moulded capping to the left, with a smaller stack to the right, which was formerly an end stack, located at the junction between the late 17th-century and 19th-century parts of the building.
Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams and joists in the ground-floor rooms, along with an inglenook fireplace that has a wooden lintel at the former end stack. The ridge stack includes a large inglenook fireplace with an elaborately moulded lintel and a 17th-century carving of a serpent (not in situ) affixed to the right side, as well as a smaller brick fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel and ogee stops on the left side. There is a cellar beneath the gabled projection. The main range, excluding the 19th-century addition, is in two bays with a central collar and tie beam truss, and the stepping of the former end stack is exposed on the first floor. The gabled range is in two short bays with raking struts from the tie beam to the principal rafters of the central truss.
Local climate
Old Hall receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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