Packington Old Hall With Walls Adjoining On East And West Sides, Courtyard Wall Adjoining At Rear, And Attached Outbuildings

Packington Old Hall is a house dating from 1679, with possible incorporation of a 16th-century timber-framed structure, and alterations around 1700 to the front elevation. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond, set on a sandstone plinth. The roofs are of two parallel and adjoining gabled ranges, covered with plain tiles. The building has ridge and side stacks, the ridge stack featuring pilaster strips. The layout is lobby-entry.

The south-west front, facing the principal aspect, has five bays framed by rusticated brick quoins and a moulded stone eaves cornice. Two large dormers, dated around 1700, are set into the roof, flanked by a three-storey porch. The porch’s third storey has a sandstone segmental pediment supported by Ionic pilasters at the corners. Rusticated quoins mark the ground and first stages of the porch, which is accessed by four steps leading to a flat-arch doorway with a raised keyblock and a doorcase featuring recessed panels on flanking pilasters. The door itself is of two bolection-moulded panels. Windows are cross-frame casements with later glazing, splayed and cyma-moulded transoms and mullions under flat gauged brick arches. The end and rear walls have openings in elliptical arches and original rainwater heads, dated, and downpipes. The rear wall has four gables.

Late 17th-century courtyard walls and stables, now used as outbuildings, adjoin the house to the north. These are constructed of red brick with plain-tiled roofs. The north-east and south-west walls bordering the front of the house are of red brick with some burnt brick headers on a sandstone base, and have shaped stone coping. These walls ramp up to meet the house, and have stone ball finials, which have been restored. They are pierced by oval stone peep-holes.

Inside, there is a staircase of open-well and closed-string design, featuring symmetrical twisted balusters, square newels with a shaped rail, and a painted dado mirroring the balusters, rail, and newel. Some framing, possibly from the 16th century, is visible internally. One ground floor room has a ceiling with intersecting ceiling beams, featuring plaster bolection-moulded panels to the soffits. A grey stone fireplace abuts the inglenook of a former kitchen on the north-east. Another ground floor room contains an early 18th-century corner fireplace with a shouldered stone surround and a plaster cornice with egg and dart and modillion mouldings. A principal chamber on the first floor features a garland frieze dating from 1680, and the room above the porch has a wreath tied with a large ribbon. The house was built for Sir Clement Fisher between 1679 and 1680.