Furze Hall

Furze Hall is a house dating back to the 17th century, with alterations in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with a facade of red brick in Flemish bond; the remainder of the building is plastered and weatherboarded. The roof is covered in slate and handmade red clay tiles. The main range, facing southwest, features an axial stack at the right end. It is two storeys high with attics. A 20th-century single-storey extension is attached to the right, with a flat roof. A 17th-century two-bay extension projects to the right, containing three internal stacks and two storeys. A single-storey extension is located to the left, again with slate roofing. A late 19th-century two-storey range is situated to the right of the right wing and is separated from the main range, with an indoor swimming pool at the rear. The main facade has a three-window arrangement of early 19th-century tripartite sash windows, each with 4+12+4 panes and much handmade glass. Three late 19th-century sash windows are set within gabled dormers. The central entrance features an early 19th-century half-glazed door with a plain overlight, and an early 19th-century doorcase composed of Gothic-moulded pilasters, flush-panelled jambs and soffit, and a cornice with fret dentils. The building has a dentilled cornice, a plain parapet, and a hipped gambrel roof of 18th or early 19th-century hand-cut grey slates. A two-storey splayed bay of sash windows is found on the left return of the main range. On the rear elevation, near the right end, is an early 19th-century sash window with 6+6 panes on the ground floor, and above it, a mid-19th-century sash window with 4+4 panes, both with crown glass. On the left elevation of the rear wing is an early 19th-century sash window with 20+20 panes. This wing and the rear extension are roofed with handmade red clay tiles, while the parallel wing has machine-cut slates. The interior includes an entrance hall with much 17th-century oak panelling, which has been re-sited and painted white. The interior has been extensively altered. Some exposed timber-framing on the first floor, at the left end, has been moved from another location and is not structurally connected to the building.