The Old Hall

The Old Hall is a manor house located on Bartlow Dean Road, dating from the late 16th century, with an extension added to the south side in the 18th century. The building is timber-framed, with plaster rendering and tiled roofs. It features a ridge stack that has been rebuilt, consisting of three octagonal linked shafts. The house is designed as a double-ended hall house, with a main range that is two storeys high. It includes two hipped full dormers and two modern ground floor hung sash windows, along with a modern porch at the front door.

To the east, there is a crosswing that is also two storeys tall, with some red brick visible on the south gable end and two modern windows on the north front. The west crosswing, which has two storeys and an attic, features two projecting red brick chimney stacks on the west wall. One of these stacks, located on the south side, has clunch quoins and two octagonal shafts. The north front has modern fenestration. At the rear of the main block, there is a stair turret with a gable, which may have been added in the 17th century, along with other 18th-century additions that include a cellar and store.

Inside, the main range has little exposed timber from the 16th century. The west crosswing showcases ovolo moulded main beams with decorative enrichment, as well as ogee moulded jambs and a flat head on the clunch fireplace. A mid-18th-century staircase features two flights with column-on-vase balusters clustered at the newel, a moulded rail, and a closed string. On the first floor, there is another clunch fireplace similar to the one on the ground floor. The posts in both crosswings have jowled heads, and one in the east crosswing has ogee moulding on the soffit of the main post in the centre truss.