Detton Hall

Substantial farmhouse, formerly probably a manor house, dating to around 1600 and later 17th century with minor later alterations. The building is constructed of timber-frame and coursed rubble stone, with some red brick incorporating stone dressings. It has a plain-tile roof with brick and stone ridge and massive lateral stacks featuring star-plan twin, triple and quadruple flues. The plan is organised as a hall and cross-wings with 2 storeys and an attic. The 4-window range extends across the front.

The timber-framed range to the right dates to around 1600 and originally contained a hall with cross-wing. A hall range was added to its left side, probably when an earlier hall on its right side was demolished. The hall range features a porch with a door within and a small casement to the upper right, with a 3-light casement over. The timber framing is covered by corrugated iron and then hanging shingles, with a lean-to extending to the left. Further left stands a stone cross-wing with its gable facing the road, containing a door, window and 3-light casement over, plus a 2-light casement in the attic. Beyond this is a dairy with granary over.

The cross-wing to the right has a 3-light cross window to the ground floor and a similar one to the first floor, which is jettied. A small attic window is present. At the junction point to the left, a projection carries further casements. The close-studded framing on the right side of the wing appears to show blocked doorways, with a 3-light casement to the first floor. The rear of the cross-wing is of stone, possibly covering the framing, with 3-light windows on both floors and a boarded attic window.

The hall range is set back with the massive cross-wing stack, then the main staircase projection, which has a part-glazed door with hood and a wooden cross window above, followed by two 3-light casements over the lean-to and a further 3-light casement. To the centre right is the secondary staircase projection with a cross-window and attic 2-light. The gable to the right has further 2- and 3-light windows with a lean-to beneath.

Interior. The interior remains little altered. The hall features chamfered wall posts and beams with ogee stops, and a partly blocked massive open fireplace with moulded bressumer and stone jambs. The cross-wing contains deeply chamfered beams and dragon beams next to the hall range. 17th-century oak panelling is present in the bedrooms and partly in the drawing room, with the original roof and a moulded doorway surviving in the attic. The main open-well staircase of around 1600, running from ground floor to attic, has elongated pierced strapwork panels and carved newels. A late 17th-century secondary newel staircase also rises from ground floor to attic. Several further open fireplaces are present throughout, including one in the hall range attic. The original roof structure survives. Two ovolo-moulded wood mullioned windows appear on the first floor.