Dorrington Hall Farmhouse

Dorrington Hall Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with substantial rebuilding in the early to mid 19th century, and later 19th-century alterations and additions. The structure is timber-framed with plastered infill panels, partially refaced or rebuilt in red brick, and has plain tile roofs. It is a baffle-entry hall range of two framed bays, with a projecting gabled cross wing to the northeast of two framed bays, along with a stair wing and a later wing to the rear. The house has two storeys and a gable-lit attic.

The southeast front features a large central dressed grey sandstone ridge stack with four diagonally-placed square brick shafts, integral brick and stack to the left, an external lateral brick stack to the right of the cross wing, and an integral lateral brick stack to the rear wing. The window arrangement is two windows wide with one window between, using 19th-century two-, three-, and four-light wooden casements with small panes. Those in the cross wing have segmental heads. A ground-floor C20 small-paned, four-light wooden casement is located to the right. A pair of ground-floor 19th-century canted bays are on the left. A 19th-century lean-to porch is situated in the angle of the cross wing with a C20 half-glazed door and window in the return front. Another 19th-century lean-to against the right-hand return front contains a bake oven, a copper, and two cast-iron pumps.

The rear of the farmhouse shows exposed timber framing in the cross wing. There is a central 19th-century gabled wing and two small gabled wings to the right, one of which contains the staircase.

The interior retains much original timber framing, including a back wall with chamfered posts. Chamfered beams are found throughout. A central ground-floor room has a chamfered cross-beam ceiling with chamfered joists. One wall has a chamfered and stopped wall plate. There is an inglenook fireplace with brick piers, a chamfered wooden lintel, and two cupboards flanking a possibly 18th-century inserted fireplace. A 17th-century dog-leg oak staircase rises to the first floor (formerly to the attic, but now truncated) in the rear stair wing; it has a closed string with raised ornament, pierced splat balusters, a moulded handrail and square newel posts with pendants. The foot newel features a raised fleur-de-lys ornament and a finial with faceted ornament. A central first-floor room has a chamfered cross-beamed ceiling with plain joists and remains of a blocked 17th-century fireplace with a moulded stone cornice. The first-floor rooms in the cross wing feature chamfered beams with elaborate stops. An oak winder stair leads from the first floor of the cross wing to the attic.