Fillongley Old Hall

Fillongley Old Hall is a house dating from the early 16th century, which was remodelled and extended around 1840. The building is timber-framed, with parts cased or rebuilt in red brick laid in Flemish bond, and some areas rendered. It features sandstone ashlar on two gables at the front and has plain-tiled roofs with end parapets on moulded kneelers. The main range consists of four bays and has a cross-passage at the rear of the stack. The three rear gables, all dating to around 1840, are two storeys high. The central block is made of red brick and has segmental arches above two four-light cross-frame casements. The porch, added around 1840, is made of sandstone ashlar and has a gabled roof with an end parapet on kneelers, featuring a symmetrical design with a slightly off-centre doorway and a four-centred outer arch. There is a 19th-century doorway that replaces the original 16th-century entry to the cross-passage. The two-storey gables, also from 1840, are symmetrically placed and have a blind cross-frame casement at the first floor and a similar glazed window at the ground floor. The rear gables are made of red brick and date from the same period.

Inside, the roof of the main range is from the 16th century and consists of four bays with two intact partition walls. It features close-set vertical studding, clasped side purlins, and wind bracing, although some of the bracing has been removed. There is an inglenook fireplace, and a cellar located at the south end, likely beneath the original solar, which may date from the early 16th century or possibly earlier. The cellar walls are made of coursed and squared sandstone, with a vaulted roof of similar material. In the southeast corner, there is a four-centred arch with iron fittings and draw-bar holes, and the doorway on the outer side has a broad chamfer. The original entry to the cellar was probably from a newel stair-turret, of which fragments may still exist, leading from the solar.