Preesgweene Hall

House. Built in the mid-17th century and remodelled in 1834, with later additions and alterations. The exterior is roughcast brick on a rendered rubblestone plinth, likely partially concealing a timber frame, with a slate roof hidden behind a coped parapet featuring pointed corner finials to the front. The main three-bay range is connected to a two-bay range at a right angle to the rear on the right side. The eaves have been raised to the front of the main range. The house has three stories and originally featured three windows, with four-paned sash windows to the first and second floors (only on the left and right sides of the second floor). These windows have shaped plastered lintels, with carvings of human heads and leaf decoration at the centre of the first-floor windows. A shallow, hip-roofed verandah extends along the ground floor and to the left gable end, covering late 19th-century French windows on both sides. The central entrance is accessed via an open stone Roman Doric pedimented porch, with metopes and triglyphs projecting slightly from the verandah. A late 19th-century half-glazed door is topped by an earlier 19th-century fanlight with fluted corner spandrels. A stepped external end stack is located on the left side, and an integral end stack is on the right. On the rear of the left range, a floor band is cut by a segmental-headed opening containing a three-light mullion window, and there's an integral end stack. A lateral, integral stack serves a 19th-century rear addition.

Inside, the ground floor rooms feature chamfered beams, some of which are boxed in. An infilled doorway at the rear of the central passage has a fanlight similar to the front door, but without beading, and incorporates reused Jacobean panelling below. A dog-leg staircase on the left side of the passage rises to the second floor, elaborately carved with unusually shaped splat balusters, carved newel-posts, a closed string, and a moulded handrail. Later turned balusters likely rise from the newel-posts to support the flights above, with some newel-posts featuring urn finials (probably 19th century), though some have been removed. 18th-century panelled doors and 19th-century fireplaces with decorative cast-iron grates are found throughout, and the first floor rooms retain wide-boarded oak floorboards. The second floor reveals parts of a double-purlin roof, with collar and tie beam trusses exposed.