Spring Hall

Spring Hall is an early 18th-century house, significantly remodelled in the mid-18th century and raised and extended in the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with weatherboarding on the rear wing, and stands three stories and attics high. The house faces east and features a three-period architectural design, with a rear wing extending northwest. The rear wing is three stories high and has an attic; it is plastered and weatherboarded, with the upper story jettied on the north side. All sections are roofed with steep old red tiles, topped with multi-shafted 19th-century brick gable chimneys. A brick and weatherboarded tiled lean-to is attached to the south end, featuring a large boarded gable facing south. A stair tower, located in the angle between the wings, serves only the ground and first floors.

The original house appears to have been an early 18th-century, rectangular, red-brick structure facing east, with a two-room, central-entrance plan. A brick floor band is visible at the front, and a continuous projecting band runs along the eaves. The lower two stories of the rear wing and the stair tower may be part of this original house, or possibly belong to an earlier block. In the mid-18th century, two-story brick canted bay windows were added to the front, each with flush box sash windows featuring 6/6:8/8:6/6 panes on each floor, finished with a dentilled top cornice. Also from this period is a fine wooden Doric porch, now repositioned. It has fluted Roman Doric columns supporting a full entablature, flanking a six-panel raised and fielded door.

In the 19th century, the front block was raised by a full story, featuring three recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes. A steep red tile roof was added, with bellcast and dentilled eaves cornices returning under verges at each end. Large, three-shaft moulded gable chimneys are present on the north and south gables, and two small, four-paned tiled gabled dormers are set into the front roof slope. The bay windows were given tiled hipped roofs, and the porch was brought forward under a low-pitched bargeboarded gable roof. A full story, jettied to the north, was added to the rear wing, featuring flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes. Gabled tiled dormers with 2-light Yorkshire casements (six panes per light) are found on the north and south roof slopes, along with a large projecting gable with a 6/6-paned sash on the south. There is a projecting west gable chimney with four decorated shafts, and a lateral stack on the north with two shafts. The north side of the rear wing is plastered, while the south side is weatherboarded, with 8/8-paned sashes to the second and first floors. A roundheaded window with margin lights is present in the stair tower. A ground-floor lean-to conservatory is on the west of the main block, and a tall oriel window is set into the upper floor of the two-story south lean-to. The house occupies a prominent hillside position and is a complex, picturesque building showcasing multiple periods of construction.