Birdingbury Hall

Birdingbury Hall is a country house, now used as offices, dating to the early 17th century. It was largely remodelled and rebuilt in the mid to late 19th century, possibly following a fire. The house is constructed of squared coursed lias and limestone, with limestone ashlar dressings and a moulded cornice. It has an old tile hipped and gabled roof, with stone ridge, lateral, and external stacks that have 19th-century brick shafts decorated with diagonally-set square and octagonal details and moulded stone cornices. The building has a U-shaped plan and is executed in a Jacobethan style.

The main east front is largely symmetrical, featuring a deeply-recessed centre with a large, formerly open-fronted, ashlar porch. The porch has a moulded keyed round arch with a console keystone, Tuscan columns on high bases, and shields within the spandrels. Tuscan pilasters sit on tall pedestals, topped by a moulded cornice and openwork balustrade, finished with spiked ball finials. The entrance now has late 20th-century glazed double doors and panels; inside, it features half-glazed, moulded, four-panelled double-leaf doors and a fanlight. Moulded stone mullioned and transomed windows are found throughout the building. A slight projection above the porch contains a three-light window and a coped stepped gable parapet. The slightly projecting left and right bays have a ground floor of ashlar with large four-light windows, a string course, and a first floor with quoins and three-light windows. A moulded parapet runs throughout. Large finials are positioned at the corners of the building. The inner sides of the wings contain two bays, each with four-light windows. The wings also have large ashlar six-light bay windows. Hipped roofs rise into hipped roof dormers with 20th-century windows. The left wing has cross windows to the left, while the right wing has a plank door in the corner.

The south front is irregular, with short, narrow wings. These wings have chamfered Tudor-arch doorways with sunk spandrels—a half-glazed six-panel door to the left and French windows to the right, with blocked windows nearby. A lower, two-storey, two-window projection to the left has another doorway with a half-glazed four-panelled door and an overlight, above which is a single-light window; it is topped with a coped gable parapet. The left part of this projection has one-light windows and a flat roof. The centre has an upper three-light window with a central bow. A projecting full-length three-light window to the right is accompanied by a balustrade and a cross window above. The west front, with nine windows, features three external stacks and a moulded string course. A projecting gabled bay is situated on the right. The ground floor has two cross windows and four full-length four-light windows, two with glazed doors consisting of two round-arched panels. The first floor has cross windows and a three-light window to the projection. Two two-light casement, hipped roof dormers are also present.

Inside, the entrance hall has a screen on the right composed of two Tuscan columns and antae. A mid/late 19th-century fireplace has red granite shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. The open well staircase, dating back to approximately 1630, boasts a richly carved openwork balustrade of flowers and foliage, panelled newel posts, and large carved finials.