Old Hall

The Old Hall is a house dating from the mid-16th and late 16th centuries, with subsequent additions and alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame, plaster infill, and a plain tile roof. The main range consists of three bays, featuring a projecting full-height gabled former entrance porch in the centre. To the right is a likely earlier two-bay gabled range, which sits beneath a separate, steeply pitched roof. A long, mid-19th century single-storey addition, built of painted brick and rubblestone, connects at a right angle to the right side of this range.

The main range is two storeys high with attics, and exhibits timber framing with three irregular square panels (four to the entrance porch) above a girding beam. Close-set vertical posts are present, along with a middle rail and long, straight tension braces (replaced with a brick plinth to the left of the porch and to the rear). The left gable end features concave lozenge decoration and raking struts from the collar. The porch is jettied to the attic with a moulded bressumer and carved corner brackets. The framing of the gabled range is exposed to the rear and right return, showcasing square panels and short, straight tension braces with V-struts from the collar.

The fenestration is irregular, with 20th-century metal casements positioned on each floor to the left and right of the porch. Additionally, there are three narrow fixed-light windows to the ground floor of the porch, two below the gable, and a late 20th century casement to the first floor of the gabled wing. A ridge stack is situated immediately to the right of the porch, featuring a sandstone base and three attached rebated reddish brown brick shafts of a star section. The current entrance is to the left, through a 20th-century ledged door, under an open lean-to porch.

Internally, parts of the timber frame are exposed. A cross-beam ceiling is found in the left-hand ground-floor room, while other principal rooms have chamfered ceiling beams with straight-cut stops. There is also an inglenook fireplace and double-purlin roofs with slightly cambered collar and tie-beam trusses. A significant feature is the Renaissance-style plaster decoration on the front wall of the gabled wing, likely dating from the late 16th century. This decoration is stylistically comparable to the plasterwork at Abbey House, Buildwas, and Belswardyne Hall, Cressage. It is believed that the same school of plasterers was responsible for decorative work at Plaish, Morville, Upton Cressett, and Wilderhope, suggesting the possible use of identical moulds across these sites.