New Hall

A farmhouse, now a house, dating back to the 14th or 15th century, with significant alterations in the 17th century and the late 19th century, including later additions. The construction is a roughcast brick layer over a timber frame, with a slate roof. The house consists of a long hall range, originally open to the roof and comprising four or five bays, with a cross-wing added to the left in the 17th century. A twin-gabled range to the rear on the right is likely from the 17th century but may be earlier; a late 19th-century gabled range projects to the front on the right. The house has two storeys. Windows on the right gabled range are late 19th-century, horned four-pane sashes, two to each floor, while the left gabled range has late 19th-century casements, also two to each floor, all with segmental heads. A lean-to porch, open on one side and supported by brick pillars, sits between the gabled ranges; it has windows beneath, to the left and right (the right one now infilled), and a 17th-century nail-studded plank door with fleur-de-lys painted strap hinges, marking the original cross passage's location. A prominent integral lateral stack, rebuilt in the late 19th or early 20th century with brick, is on the front wall of the hall range, just to the left of the left gabled range. Attached to the back wall of the hall range is a large external stack with a 20th-century shaft. The twin-gabled range to the rear has an integral end stack to the right gable, and a 20th-century stack to the left of the right gabled range, positioned in the angle with the hall range. A late 19th-century brick lean-to extends from the left of the left gabled range. Inside, several 17th-century chamfered ceiling beams are visible in ground-floor rooms, alongside timber framing in the right wall of the cross-passage. The repositioned staircase, which may have originally been an open-well design, features late 17th-century barley-sugar balusters, a moulded handrail, and carved decoration to the newels and risers. Rectangular 17th-century oak panelling is present below, though it is not in its original location. Visible on the first floor and in the roof space are collar and tie beam trusses of the hall range, with significant smoke blackening towards the right end, especially around a possible former louvre at the junction between the hall range and the left gable of the rear range. The roof also has through purlins and straight windbraces. The roof to the left of the cross-passage shows no smoke blackening, suggesting this part always had a first floor and was likely the service end. Collar and tie beam trusses are also present in the left gabled range (the 17th-century cross-wing).