Marrington Hall

Marrington Hall is a small country house, largely dating from the mid- to late 19th century, but incorporating a late 16th-century core. It is timber-framed with plaster infill, with partly rendered and painted black and white decorative work. The roofs are slate-covered. A three-bay section from the late 16th century remains to the centre of the ground floor. Apart from some late 17th- or early 18th-century timber framing (square panels) to one of the rear gables, the rest of the house is in a mid-Victorian Elizabethan style. The house is two storeys high, with four full-height gables to the front. The timber framing includes close studding with straight tension braces to the ground floor and herringbone bracing above a moulded bressumer on the 16th-century part. The majority of the decorative framing is painted, featuring quatrefoils, trefoil-headed arches, and patterns resembling plate tracery. The front has eight windows, which are mainly late 19th-century cross-windows and mullioned and transomed windows, including those in the gables (the second from the left, which is canted). The left gable has an attached gabled porch with a stone armorial shield above traceried double doors. A late 19th-century elaborately moulded red brick ridge stack is located at the junction with the left gable, and there is an external stone lateral stack to the right with an elaborate octagonal shaft and a circular shaft with twisted decoration, possibly reused from the earlier 16th-century house. A plain rectangular red brick stack is located within the rear roof slope, possibly also part of the earlier house. The interior features 19th-century panelled rooms, a staircase (a copy of a 17th-century design), vaulted ceilings with moulded wooden ribs and carved bosses, and plaster reliefs in the far right room. A mid-20th-century timber-framed addition to the left, running round to the rear as a gable, is not of special architectural interest.