Chatwall Hall

A farmhouse, dating to the mid-17th century, with alterations around 1700 and additions from around 1899. The construction is in dressed Hoar Edge Grit sandstone, with a 20th-century plain tile roof. The building has an irregular plan, consisting of two storeys and an attic, with three gables facing the front, the left-hand gable projecting. It features a chamfered plinth and a large pebble-dashed external stack in front of the right-hand gable, with a tiled setback to a brick shaft. A further external lateral stone stack is located at the rear, also with a brick shaft. The front elevation has two windows. There are 17th-century three-light double-chamfered mullioned stone windows, and two-light attic windows; the window on the left lacks a mullion but has a roundel depicting the Shrewsbury arms above it. A small blocked double-chamfered window is present in the right-hand return of the wing. The centre of the front features a first-floor window with a moulded cornice, and two ground-floor windows around 1700, with flat-faced mullions. The window on the right has a pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. A roughly 1700 one-storey dressed sandstone porch replaces a former mono-pitched roof and features a flat roof, a moulded plinth, and cornice. It contains a 19th-century Tudor-arched, nail-studded boarded door, with a bolection-moulded surround, pulvinated frieze and a small double-chamfered stone window in the left-hand return front. A replica lead rainwater head is set between the right-hand gable, lettered "AD/1620." Two 19th-century gabled wings are set at the rear.

The interior of the central ground-floor room features panelling dated “R S” and lettered “R C” with a fluted frieze, a large corner fireplace with a chamfered lintel, carved frieze, an 18th-century raised and fielded panelled overmantel (the centre panel having a shaped top) and a chamfered ceiling beam with plain and ogee stops. The right-hand ground-floor room has a fireplace with chamfered dressed sandstone reveals and a chamfered wooden lintel with a mason’s mitre, and an ogee-stopped chamfered cross-beamed ceiling with chamfered joists. The left-hand first-floor room also has a corner fireplace. The building has timber-framed cross walls. The left-hand wing has collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts and v-struts. The gable end of the right-hand wing is timber-framed with square panels, angle braces and a cambered tie-beam truss with queen struts and v-struts. The right-hand gable formerly projected with a timber framed wing, which likely explains its unfinished appearance and the large external stack.