Callowhill Hall

Callowhill Hall is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed on a high brick plinth with ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof with brick external lateral stacks. The building features a two-room range aligned northeast to southwest, with a porch that projects from the center of the southeast side. The main living rooms are located at ground floor level, while the kitchens are in the basements.

The house has two storeys and a gable-lit attic above the basement. The windows are arranged in a 1:1:1 pattern, primarily casements, except for a four-light chamfered mullioned window on the left side of the basement and a blocked window on the right. The central two-storey gabled porch has a door that is accessed by a flight of stone steps, the first six of which are semi-circular in shape, featuring an elaborately carved stone parapet interspersed with square-section piers.

The framing of the building includes close studding on the ground floor, with scrolled brackets supporting a jettied first floor that has decorative framing of diagonal struts, creating lozenge shapes in the outer panels.

On the southwest elevation, there is a two-storey, two-bay late 17th-century brick extension to the left, which features a first-floor band, casements on the first floor, and six-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor. A central two-storey brick link has a ground-floor doorway accessed by stone steps and a first-floor casement. The gable of the main house to the right includes a four-light mullion window in the basement and a casement on the ground floor. The close-studded ground floor has square paneling on the first floor and attic, with both floors supported by straight tension braces.

Inside, the two main rooms of the basement have massive segmental-arched fireplaces, while the main living rooms feature large stone fireplaces with four-centred heads. The house also has an early 17th-century staircase with turned balusters, 17th-century wall panelling complete with doors, and chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.