Pooley Hall, Attached Former Chapel And Pooley Hall Farmhouse

Country house, now divided into 2 houses, with an attached former chapel. The complex is said to have been built in 1509 by Sir Thomas Cokayne, then altered in 1692 and during the 18th century, with further modifications in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The buildings are constructed in English bond brick with sandstone dressings and have old plain-tile roofs with brick ridges, external and lateral stacks. The plan is complex, comprising 3 separate ranges linked by curtain walls and displaying domestic Tudor styling.

Pooley Hall itself, positioned to the left, is a 2-storey 4-window range facing towards the canal. Its principal front includes a 2-storey 6-light embattled bay largely of stone, with 3-light returns and blocked end lights to the first floor. The wide external stack has upper parts rebuilt, and contains a 2-light wood mullioned window in its base. Fenestration is irregular, predominantly 3-light windows with centre-arched lights. The left return side has 4-light and 2-light attic windows plus an external stack. The rear elevation displays a twin-gabled 2-bay front rebuilt in 1692, with a blocked door to the left, a late 20th-century half-glazed door and porch, and leaded wood casements with top lights — 4 lights to ground floor and 3 lights above — with segmental arches. A lower lean-to addition spans the left return side. The right return side features a stone buttress and a blocked 3-light mullioned window to the first floor, with leaded 3-light windows of the 18th century. The interior is said to contain beamed ceilings and 16th and 17th-century panelling.

The former chapel, linked by a curtain wall incorporating a lead-latticed glazed corridor with a central 19th-century ribbed door, is in Perpendicular style. Its east window comprises 3 stepped lancets under a 4-centred hood mould. The shallow-pitched roof carries embattled gable parapets. The south side has windows of 1, 2 and 3 lights in straight-headed form. The west front has a chamfered 4-centred doorway with moulded spandrels, hood mould and panelled stops, and an ancient panelled door with applied ribs; above is a straight-headed 3-light window. A small 2-storey turret to the left has a single light; its upper part is octagonal with small openings to alternate sides. The north side contains a doorway.

Pooley Hall Farmhouse to the north features a 3-storey embattled tower with splay courses between storeys. A blocked straight-headed 4-centred doorway on the right has altered and blocked openings above. Chamfered stone mullioned windows are of 2 lights to the ground floor and 3 lights above. A stair turret on the left has a canted top corner. An irregular 1-storey 20th-century range adjoins on the right. The rear shows a 2-storey 2-window range with a stone-coped gable parapet and kneelers. The rebuilt west wall has 3- and 4-light stone mullioned windows with cornices. The left return side has a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with hood mould (probably 20th-century) and panelled door, a 21st-century 4-light mullioned window to the left, and a small 16th-century brick mullioned 3-light window above. A lateral stack on the right has a shaft with pilaster strips and string course. The right return side exhibits brick diapering. A 2-storey porch has a blocked 4-centred doorway and a single light above, with similar blocked doorways to left and right, and 2- and 3-light brick chamfered mullioned windows. The interior of the farmhouse was not inspected at the time of listing.