Longdon Hall

Longdon Hall is the surviving south wing of a late 16th-century E-shaped house. The wing is constructed of red brick with stone window surrounds. It is two storeys and has an attic. The front elevation features a moulded stone coping, long and short quoins, a moulded string course, and an ashlar plinth. A tripartite sash window with glazing bars sits on the ground floor within a moulded stone frame, and above it is a four-light stone mullion/transom window. A two-light stone mullion window is set in the gable above, and there’s another two-light window in the attic gable. A moulded Tudor arched doorway is to the right. The south return has two gables with an external chimney between, featuring stone quoins and two stacks with diagonal shafts. A similar chimney stack is over the corner, and a group of three stacks is over the two-storey wing at the rear. The south elevation has a range of three three-light stone mullion windows; the ground floor windows have a moulded string course running over them, and the attic windows have two lights with moulded drips. The north elevation has been altered but retains two two-light stone mullion windows and a late 18th-century doorcase with reeded pilasters, a dentilled cornice, and a panelled door. A gable at the rear (east) has a two-light stone attic window. A circa 18th-century brick wing, two storeys high with a one-and-a-half storey attic, is also situated at the rear. The roofs are covered in plain tiles. The interior of the hall contains 16th/17th-century panelling, a drawing room with a moulded plaster cornice, and a staircase where only the top flight retains its shaped slat balusters and moulded handrail. One first-floor room boasts a moulded plaster ceiling with two roundels depicting signs of the zodiac and strapwork. Another first-floor room contains a fragment of a moulded plaster frieze with vine decoration. Throughout the wing are chamfered ceiling beams and some 16th/17th-century doors.