Sweeney Hall

Sweeney Hall is a country house that has been converted into a hotel. It was built in 1805, as indicated by a datestone on the right return, and incorporates parts of a late 18th-century building. The house was extended around 1860, with later additions and alterations. The main structure is made of ashlar stone, while the earlier service range and outbuildings at the rear are constructed of red brick. The building features a low-pitched hipped slate roof with stone ridge stacks that are concealed behind a moulded eaves parapet.

The house has two storeys and includes a continuous floor band with giant Tuscan pilasters at the corners and flanking a central porch. It has a five-bay by three-bay façade, with sash windows. The first-floor windows on the front and right return lack glazing bars, while the ground floor features tall 15-paned sashes. There are dummy windows on each floor in the centre and right bays of the left return and in the centre of the right return. The canted entrance porch, likely added slightly later, has glazing bar sashes on either side of a six-panel door, which is flanked by pilasters. Above the door is a rectangular overlight with 19th-century stained glass depicting an armorial shield with the legend "Dread Shame."

At the rear, there is an L-shaped service range that was altered in the late 19th century but retains glazing bar sashes with gauged heads. This range includes a single-storey yellow-brick corridor extension on the south that connects the main house to a Jacobean-style east wing built around 1860. The east wing is also made of yellow brick and features mullioned windows, along with prominent red brick ridge and end stacks with star-section shafts.

Inside, the hall boasts an open-well stone staircase with a latticed cast-iron balustrade, illuminated by an oval cupola that now has fibreglass glazing. There is a fine plaster frieze on the ceiling of the left ground-floor room, which was formerly a library, as well as additional friezes in the former drawing room and dining room on the right side of the house. The corridor linking the main house to the east wing features wooden vaulting that is said to be inspired by the corridors of the House of Commons. The house is set within an attractive parkland landscape.