Alderton Hall Farmhouse

Alderton Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the early 18th century, with a core from the mid to late 17th century and a mid-19th century addition. It is constructed of dressed grey sandstone, which includes fragments of an earlier partly rendered timber frame with red brick nogging on a dressed sandstone plinth, along with a dressed red sandstone addition. The roof is slate.

The building has an L-shaped plan and is one storey with an attic. It features a moulded plinth, flanking pilaster strips, and a coved cornice. There are external stone end stacks with chamfered offsets and brick tops. The facade has three bays, with wooden cross windows that have stone cills and flat stone arches topped with raised chamfered keystones. There are also two first-floor gabled semi-dormers. The central break includes a round-arched attic window with a stone cill and a moulded archivolt, along with moulded imposts and a raised keystone, and a parapeted gable above with moulded coping.

The central entrance has a four-panelled door, where the lower two panels are flush beaded, along with a two-part rectangular overlight, moulded reveals, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment. At the rear, there is probably a mid-19th century one-storey kitchen wing made of dressed red sandstone, which has an internal brick end stack, and a two-bay open lean-to in the angle.

Inside, there are 17th-century timber-framed square-panelled cross walls. The left-hand ground-floor room features a large open fireplace with a chamfered and ogee-stopped lintel, while the right-hand ground-floor room has an arched recess. Alderton Hall Farm was likely the residence of members of the Downton family from the late 16th century to the end of the 17th century. The earlier part of the building likely dates from their time, while the early 18th-century remodelling probably occurred after Richard Gough's account, which was written in 1701.