Alderton Hall

This is a late medieval farmhouse that has been altered in the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and has weatherboard cladding, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It consists of a two-bay hall aligned east-west, with a north aspect. A chimney stack was inserted at the west end. A two-bay service crosswing was added at the east end in the 17th century, featuring an external chimney stack on the south gable. A two-bay parlour crosswing was built in the 18th century at the west end, with an internal chimney stack in the north part of the east wall. An 18th-century stair tower is located in the northeast angle. A two-storey extension, likely dating to the late 17th or 18th century, was added to the southeast angle, possibly serving as a garderobe or closets. A single-storey lean-to extension on the north side of the east wing is also from the 18th century. A substantial lean-to extension to the north of the main hall creates a catslide roof, largely dating to the 20th century.

The north elevation of the ground floor features a window with two horizontally sliding lights from the 18th century, along with three small 19th-century casement windows, double doors, a picture window, and a bow window with a tiled hipped roof, all from the 20th century. The first floor has one 19th-century casement window and two early 19th-century double-hung sash windows with 12 lights each. The attic has five small casement windows, dating to the late 19th or 20th centuries. Internal framing is partially exposed, with jowled posts present. Inside the east wing, straight braces extend from corner posts to wallplates and tiebeams within the studwork, which are not trenched. An inserted floor in the hall, dating to the late 16th century, consists of transverse and axial beams with plain-chamfered step stops, with plastered joists supported on pegged clamps. The original wallplates of the hall are just above the first-floor level, and the central tiebeam is missing. The walls of the hall were raised by approximately 1.5 meters in the 17th century, and the axial beam of the attic floor has plain-chamfered lamb's tongue stops. The hall roof was rebuilt in the 18th century with four collars of a distinctive ox-bow shape to provide headroom in the attic. An 18th-century window in the north extension of the east wing retains its original saddle bars, leading, and rectangular panes - a rare survival. Another 18th-century window in the north wall of the hall, within the lean-to extension, has a hardwood frame, three fixed lights, and a wrought iron casement, retaining all saddle bars, original leading, and rectangular panes, although the turnbuckle and stay for the casement are missing.

Below the east wing is a barrel-vaulted cellar of red brick, likely dating to the 17th century, that was strengthened with iron girders and used as an air raid shelter during World War II. A brick vent leads westwards from the cellar, now inaccessible, that likely served for drainage and dairy cooling. A ground floor room in the west wing was restored in the 20th century following fire damage.