Kenley Hall

KENLEY C.P. KENLEY SJ 50 SE 4/69 Kenley Hall GV II

Manor house, now farmhouse. Circa 1639 for William Carter, with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed gritstone rubble with red sandstone dressings, machine tile roof. 2 storeys over semi-basement kitchen, attics; 3-bay front; 2- 3- and 4-light double-chamfered mullion windows; gabled dormer in roof slope to centre; tall late C19 gabled red brick porch with lateral steps to left between second and third bays from left gives access to semi-basement kitchen and principal floor; prominent integral stack to centre of back wall, formerly with 3 octagonal brick shafts, now has 3 late C19 rebated red brick shafts, subsidiary integral red brick end stack behind ridge to left; gables re-built in late C19 red brick. 2-storey kitchen range at right-angles to rear added c. 1913. Interior: timber framed cross-walls. (square panels) to principal and first floors, chamfered ceiling beams throughout with bar stops; fireplace in main room on principal floor has wooden lintel with inscription "William Carter 1639" carved on it, moulded wooden overmantel; also in this room some contemporary oak panelling with inset cupboards (butterfly hinges) and fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges (dated 1639) from former doors; C19 open-well staircase probably in position of original staircase; 3-bay roof also reconstructed in late C19 but retains original double purlins and straight windbraces. V.C.H. VIII (1968) pp.94-5.

Listing NGR: SJ5633800708