Hall Farmhouse

Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century and early to mid-17th century, with rebuilding and extension in the early 19th century. It is timber framed with red brick nogging, and has red brick external end stacks and plain tile roofs. The framing is of C17 square panels, with later C18 or C19 studs and thin rails. There are two parallel ranges of two framed bays to the rear, with a later range to the front. The main facade is three storeys high. The windows are 2-light wooden casements with stone sills and lintels. The central door has six panels, the top four glazed, and is set within a doorcase with pilaster strips, a moulded impost band, and brackets supporting a moulded cornice. A canted open porch of grey sandstone ashlar features a pair of stubby Tuscan columns on low brick walls, supporting a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a central triangular pediment. The rear wall of the early 19th-century block is of light timber framing with brick nogging. Two gabled rear wings are present: one dating from about 1600 to the south, with brick underbuilding and other alterations, and an integral brick end stack; and one from the early to mid-17th century to the north, which has a rendered plinth, a jettied first floor with a quarter-round moulded bressumer, and first-floor corner posts with pendant-shaped feet. There is also a jettied gable end with a quarter-round moulded bressumer, one-and-a-half gabled semi-dormers, and a central brick ridge stack. Further 19th-century additions are at the rear. Inside, the rear wings feature chamfered beams. The front range contains an early 19th-century staircase with an open string, stick balusters, and a turned newel post. The framing of the north rear wing appears to have been altered, probably in the late 18th or early 19th century, possibly during the addition of the front range. While the structure appears to be of C17 date, the framing — characterised by wide studs and thin, unpegged rails — is not typical of that period, although earlier timbers were likely reused.