Wyddial Hall

Country house, originally built in the early 16th century (likely 1516 for Humphrey Wellisbourne), significantly remodelled in 1733 for Francis Goulston and altered around 1780 for John Thomas Ellis MP. Further alterations occurred between 1836 and 1865 for Charles Heaton-Ellis. The building is constructed of stuccoed brick with steep tiled roofs. It is a tall, striking two-storey house with a cellar (and formerly attics), facing east. The front features a central two-storey porch, flanked by canted two-storey bay windows at each end, topped by a balustraded parapet over a moulded entablature with a triglyph frieze. There are three windows on each side of the porch. The lower floor has recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes, while the first floor has taller casement windows with segmental heads. The entrance door has a radial fanlight set within a semi-circular head, surrounded by a rusticated, vermiculated surround. The south garden front exhibits a similar arrangement of six windows with matching sashes. A curved screen wall extends along the north end.

A drapery engraving from around 1700 depicts a 16th-century brick house of comparable size, featuring a central two-storey porch in the same position and a tall semi-circular bay window illuminating a hall extending south of the porch. Two Doric columns now correspond to location of the hall screens. A lateral chimney originally existed, with service rooms located north of the hall, and surviving cellars below. The roof was rebuilt before 1700, incorporating attics and dormers. Following a fire in 1733, the rebuilding incorporated much of the existing structure, resulting in an unusual plan. This included flooring over the hall, adding the bay windows, refurbishing the porch, creating a double-pile main range, enlarging the southwest wing, and rebuilding the roof, which retained older timbers. An early Victorian staircase replaced a 17th- or 18th-century staircase at the rear of the north part, and the service rooms were moved to the west range. Construction of the elegant, top-lit staircase was accompanied by the addition of a northwest service wing.

The interior contains a small panelled room on the first floor, featuring scratch-moulded small panels. A particularly fine hall fireplace surround is believed to originate from Cokenach.