Rorrington Hall

Rorrington Hall is a farmhouse with a late 15th century core, remodeled around 1600 and altered and extended in the mid-18th and 19th centuries. The building is timber framed with plaster infill, and it features red brick additions that are largely painted black and white to imitate a timber frame. It has slate roofs and a complex plan that includes a truncated main range with a parallel gabled range to the west. The east side displays three gables with plain bargeboards and pointed finials, with the right gable forming a projecting cross-wing and the left likely having been a two-storey porch. There are also 19th-century gabled additions to the rear.

The structure has two storeys and attics, with framing that includes close-set vertical posts, middle rails, long straight tension braces, and V-struts from collars to the front gables, which are cusped on the cross-wing. The north gable end of the parallel range to the rear, which was probably formerly jettied, features twisted corner colonnettes and quatrefoil decoration on the first-floor middle rail, a motif that is repeated on the middle rail of the back wall of the main range. The left gable ends are clad or rebuilt in 18th-century red brick with raised verges.

The late 19th-century casement windows include one on each floor of the left gable, two on the first floor at the center, and one above in the attic. The cross-wing has one window on each floor, with the ground floor window located on the far left. There are two windows in a 19th-century single-storey lean-to situated between the left and right gables. The entrance is through a 19th-century panelled door in the porch. The main range features a central red brick ridge stack with a dentilled band and moulded capping, as well as a similar external end stack on the left.

While an interior inspection was not possible during the resurvey in October 1985, it was noted to have chamfered ceiling beams and heavy joists in the main ground-floor rooms, Victorian panelling in the right ground-floor room of the main range, a pine staircase, and several 20th-century fireplaces.