Lostford Hall

Lostford Hall is a farmhouse dating to the late 17th century and the early to mid-18th century, likely incorporating an earlier core. It has undergone alterations in the late 20th century. The farmhouse is constructed of red brick in a 17th-century English bond, with 17th-century grey sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a two-span plain tile roof. The original design was a two-cell baffle-entry plan, now extended to two storeys over a basement.

The south front features a plinth, flush quoins to the right, a toothed brick string course, a toothed-brick eaves cornice, and parapeted gable ends with stone copings (moulded to the right) and moulded stone kneelers. A brick ridge stack is roughly central. The front originally had two windows, now with 19th-century three-light wooden casements. A roughly central, blocked small segmental-headed first-floor window is filled with a 20th-century stone tympanum. Ground-floor 20th-century metal French casements to the right are flanked, and partly obscure, a pair of blocked 17th-century segmental-headed windows with 20th-century stone tympana. An 18th-century brick porch sits just off-centre to the left, with a parapeted gable, stone coping, and moulded stone kneelers. The porch has a 6-panelled door (the upper four panels glazed), with a moulded architrave and a depressed-arched radial fanlight. A nail-studded boarded door is located at the rear, giving access to the basement.

A kitchen wing adjoins the main building to the north-west, with reused timber framing at the rear, refronted in 20th-century brick. This wing is two storeys high with a lateral stack at the rear.

Inside, the left-hand ground-floor front room has a pair of chamfered ceiling beams and a large open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. First-floor beams are similarly chamfered. A late 17th-century staircase is located at the rear, with a dog-leg design, winders, a closed string with cyma recta moulding, barleysugar twisted balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newel posts. The house began as what appears to be a one-cell end lobby-entry plan building, evidenced by the beams and fireplace. It was then extended to the east in the late 17th century. The earlier part, probably timber framed, appears to have been rebuilt in brick during the 18th century, as shown by the straight joint to the right of the porch between the English bond and Flemish bond brickwork.