Complex Of Farm Buildings To East Of Old Hall Farmhouse

A complex of farm buildings, including stables, cow houses, implement sheds, and a horse engine house, dating to the early 19th century with later 19th and 20th century alterations. Constructed of red brick, the roofs are hipped and tiled, with one small addition having a slate roof. The layout is extensive and complex, the main range roughly T-shaped, with detached sections forming an overall H shape. Viewed from Old Hall Farmhouse to the west, the buildings form three sides of a courtyard; the most imposing section is on the north side, featuring stables and a hayloft over three bays, articulated by blind arcading and dentilled eaves. This detailing continues throughout the main range. A slight central break features a dentilled brick cornice and a circular pitching eye to a pediment. The arcading extends into the central range for one bay. Beyond this are five hayloft doors, five stable doors, and one cart door. The right-hand detached wing, on the south side, has been altered; it presents a facade with 12 regular segmental-headed openings on both floors (three to the west are glazed, the rest are louvred), one loading door to the first floor, and a cart entry and stable door on the ground floor to the left. To the east of the courtyard, and attached to the rear of the central range, is a two-storey threshing shed wing and an immediately adjacent, apsidal horse engine house. A single-storey workshop with a slate roof is attached to the east of the threshing shed. A cow house with a store above is attached to the rear of the north corner of the courtyard, facing the engine house, featuring nine louvred segmental-headed openings over 12 cow house windows and three segmental-headed doors. These farm buildings served as the home farm for Dunstall Hall, located approximately 400 metres to the east, and were significantly more substantial than the nearby Home Farm. The 20th century steel-framed or timber-framed accretions with tin roofs to the north of the north-west wing and to the north of the south-west wing of the farm buildings are not of special interest and are not included in this listing.