Preeshenlle Old Hall

Preeshenlle Old Hall is a farmhouse, now a house, comprising an early 16th-century core that was considerably extended in the late 17th century, with further additions and alterations made subsequently.

The 16th-century part is one storey and attic, with red brick dating to the late 18th century replacing or encasing the original timber frame to its front elevation. The roof is slate with plain tiles to the front slope. A segmental-headed leaded casement window sits to the left, directly below a 20th-century gabled eaves dormer. To the right is a 17th-century panelled door beneath a 19th-century gabled hood. Above sits a prominent axial stone ridge stack with a moulded base and capping. The internal timber frame is exposed to the back wall, featuring square panels (three from sill to wall-plate) with long straight tension braces and a chamfered spine beam supporting an inserted first floor. A massive stack contains wooden lintels to ingle-nook fireplaces, the right one having a bread oven. The roof is a single-purlin design with collar and tie beam trusses, the left featuring V-struts from the collar.

The late 17th-century extension adopts a T-plan, with two bays of the 16th-century house attached to the right of a short range. This part is two storeys and gable-lit attic with coped verges on carved stone kneelers. Toothed floor bands run across the elevation, including short bands above attic windows, with pilaster strips to the corners and centre of the main range's long side, and a chamfered plinth. Windows are predominantly early 19th-century segmental-headed leaded casements, arranged as two on each floor to the long side (the lower left replaced by an early 20th-century French window) and two on each floor to the front gable with one to the attic. A prominent axial ridge stack to the main range carries three attached and rebated shafts with moulded capping and narrow projecting pilaster strips. The entrance to the front is in the short range, featuring a heavy boarded door with fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges in an original moulded wood surround, flanked by narrow pointed windows. A 19th-century red brick lean-to sits in the angle to the rear.

Internally, the 17th-century part contains ground-floor rooms with moulded ceiling beams featuring ogee stops; similar moulded beams and flat joists appear in the short range. A brick cellar lies beneath the back room. The front room has a panelled inset wall cupboard. A framed newel staircase, probably dating to around 1680, rises to the attic with carved splat balusters from ground to first floor and a scalloped board between closed string and handrail for flights to the attic; carved finials crown the newel posts. Moulded spine and cross beams support two first-floor rooms in the main range, the back room now divided into two. Seventeen-century plank doors throughout have fleur-de-lys strap hinges and moulded wood surrounds. Wide boarded floor boards cover the first floor and attic. An arch-braced collar beam roof in five bays spans the main range (including a wider central chimney bay) with double purlins; a similar roof covers one bay of the short range. Access to the first floor of the 16th-century part is through a plank door at the junction between the two sections on the first floor, as there is no staircase between ground and first floors in that part.

A late 18th-century red brick lean-to adjoins the right gable end, and a rubble-stone and brick lean-to to the rear was partly rebuilt in the late 20th century.