The Old Hall

SJ 50 SE 4/43 29.10.79

CRESSAGE C.P. STATION ROAD (east side) The Old Hall

GV II

Farmhouse, now hotel. C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed on high brick plinth with plaster and painted brick infill, sandstone slate and plain tile roofs. H-plan with cross-wings slightly projecting to rear. 2 storeys and attics; framing: square and rectangular panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate with V-struts from collars to gables; irregular fenestration, mainly C20 casements, one to attic to left gable and one to first floor and attic to right gable, C20 casement below eaves to centre with gabled dormer in roof slope above to left; late C19 canted projection to left has one sash window with Gothic glazing to first floor and a multi-paned cast-iron fixed-light window to ground floor; low single-storey C20 hip-roofed projection to right has 3 casements, one to left and 2 to right of C20 six-panel door; external lateral brick stack to right with moulded capping and 2 integral stacks to left. Interior: much altered in early C19 and mid-C20; right-hand ground floor room has a wooden fireplace and cornice and frieze to ceiling in a style derived from Robert Adam. Prominent additions of c.1923 to left are not of special architectural interest. The site of a motte and barley castle lies immediately to the north-east. V.C.H., VIII (1968), Pp.75-6.

Listing NGR: SJ5924304233