Old Hall And Attached Garden Wall

The Old Hall and attached garden wall is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century, with later additions and alterations. The main structure is timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill, a sandstone plinth, and a graded slate roof. It presents a T-plan, composed of a three-bay hall range and a two-bay cross-wing projecting to the right. Originally, a gabled cross-wing existed to the left, creating an E-plan arrangement to the front. This was altered in the early 17th century with the addition of a roughly central, two-story porch.

The house has two storeys and an attic. The timber framing features close-set vertical posts with middle rails. Continuous moulded bressumers are present to the first-floor jetty of the hall and porch. The front gable of the cross-wing is also jettied to the first floor and attic, both with moulded bressumers, complemented by V-struts from the collar and carved corner brackets to the porch and first floor of the cross-wing. Late 18th or early 19th century leaded casements are found throughout, with panelled shutters on H- and L-hinges to windows below, and one on each floor to the right of the porch and in the cross-wing. The porch has bobbin balusters to the formerly open sides, with herringbone infill below.

The right side of the cross-wing has a large, stepped external stack—the top section rebuilt in 20th-century brick—with visible outlines of infilled windows on both ground and first floors. The rear of the house includes an open lean-to to the left, partly timber-framed, and a full-length lean-to to the right, largely from the 20th century. A prominent, extruded external lateral stack on the right side has a toothed band at the base, paired and rebated shafts with projecting strips and a moulded capping. A small timber-framed lean-to is attached to the right of the C20 lean-to.

The garden wall, attached to the right corner of the cross-wing and the rear left corner of the hall range, encloses a rectangular area of approximately 40 by 20 meters. Built in the mid to late 18th century, with later repairs, it is constructed of red brick with moulded stone coping.

Internally, the house retains chamfered ceiling beams and flat, heavy joists, with exposed timber framing throughout. There is an oak winder staircase within the hall range, and a brick inglenook fireplace with stone jambs and a massive chamfered wooden lintel in the left ground-floor room. The room above features a stone and brick corner fireplace. The front room of the cross-wing has panelled window shutters, an infilled inglenook fireplace, and 17th-century wainscot panelling; a corresponding infilled inglenook fireplace is present in the back kitchen. Jacobean panelling is incorporated into several doors, and there are inset panelled wall cupboards on both floors. The roof structure consists of staggered single-purlin trusses with queen-struts over the three bays of the hall range and two bays of the cross-wing.