Biddulph Old Hall

Biddulph Old Hall is a late 17th-century farmhouse, incorporating elements of a 1580s hall, with 18th and late 19th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed of coursed and dressed sandstone, with a stone slate roof, verge parapets, and massive side stacks. The house is arranged around a rough 'L' plan, built against the remains of the original Old Hall to the south.

The entrance front has an irregular design, with screen walls and the octagonal and domed tower of the Old Hall incorporated into the roof to the left. A three-storey link block connects to the rest of the house. The main section is approximately 30 meters long and is broken in the centre by a massive projecting stone stack. A range of two-light windows is on the right, with cyma recta reveals and chamfered mullions. There are three windows to the left of the stacks; similar three-light windows are present, one on the ground floor and two on the first floor, with the left-hand set in a slight break and featuring pilaster mullions, seemingly re-used. A further three-light window sits within the link block. A mid-19th century single-storey lean-to porch is located between the stacks and the left-hand break, featuring a round-arched entry with corbelled imposts and flanking carved memorial devices, topped with a boarded door. A projecting, gabled wing of one bay is on the extreme left, aligning with the original Old Hall frontage and incorporating much reused material.

The garden front, to the west, features a blind gabled, projecting three-storey 18th-century bay to the left, and the remains of the Old Hall to the right. This flanks the rear of the 17th-century house, with a labelled four-light mullion and transom window packed into the angle to the left; a king mullion to the left suggests it was originally six lights. Mullioned windows of three and two lights are on the first floor.

The north front displays a 17th-century gable to the left, with a range of three, three-light mullioned windows, and an 18th-century wing flush to the right, containing a range of three-light casements and an entrance on the left.

Historical records indicate that Biddulph Old Hall was damaged by parliamentary cannon, known as 'Roaring Meg', in 1643 during a siege. Following this event, a farmhouse was built onto the ruins by the impoverished Biddulph family, with the addition of later wings to both sides. The main entry point to the property has shifted over time, from a grand avenue of the 1580s to the south, to the east in the 17th century, north in the 18th century, and back east in the 19th century.