Loxley Hall

Loxley Hall is a country house, now used as a school, largely dating from the early 19th century, but incorporating elements of an earlier house. The main house is constructed of ashlar, with plaster linings, and has hipped slate roofs and ashlar ridge stacks.

The building is three storeys high, with a reduced second-floor height. It features a moulded eaves cornice and a low parapet. The facade is composed of a central three-bay section, slightly recessed, flanked by wings, with glazing bar sash windows. A sill band runs along the first-floor windows. The outer ground-floor windows are set within round-headed recesses, while the inner ground-floor windows have moulded architraves and cornice hoods. The central first-floor window features a moulded architrave and a bracketed pediment. A central six-panelled, two-leaf door is sheltered by a moulded architrave and bracketed hood, and is accessed via a three-bay Tuscan portico. A two-storey, single-bay link projects to the left and connects to a three-storey, three-bay service wing, which is attached to a single-storey, six-bay flat-roofed extension.

The east front mirrors the main facade, featuring a moulded eaves cornice, low parapet, 3:5:3 bay arrangement, glazing bar sash windows and a sill band. The central entrance features a six-panelled, two-leaf door with a radiating glazed overlight, a moulded architrave, and reeded brackets to the cornice hood. A 20th-century door has been added to the left-hand bar of the central block.

Inside, an early 18th-century open-well staircase has barley-sugar twist balusters, scrolled and foliated brackets, a ramped and wreathed handrail. The hall contains Jacobean wall panelling and a frieze with armorial bearings dated 1607. The lower end of the hall has a balustraded gallery supported by Ionic columns, while the upper end contains a Jacobean fireplace surround with Corinthian columns on pedestals, decorated with strapwork and the coat of arms of James I. A decorative plaster ceiling and frieze are also present. In the master bedroom, a division consists of fluted columns of square section carrying a three-centred arch with a keystone, and egg and dart moulding, along with a Greek key frieze at mid-wall height.

Loxley Hall was formerly the residence of the Kynnersley family.