Salisbury Hall

Salisbury Hall is a country house dating to 1668-79, with 20th-century extensions replacing earlier service wings. It was built for Sir Jeremiah Snow. The house is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and has a tiled roof. Originally planned as a symmetrical nine-bay rectangular building, only five bays were built, comprising the entrance and four bays to the right. The house has two storeys and an attic.

A projecting two-storey porch features a stone entrance arch with pilasters, a keyed arch, and panels in the spandrels to the cornice, topped by a broken pediment bearing the arms of Snow in a cartouche. Inside the porch are paired recesses with benches and a ceiled roof. There is 17th-century stained glass above the entrance door. A first-floor window in the porch is a two-light casement with glazing bars and a transom below the top lights, set within a rubbed brick flat arched head. The left return of the porch has a timber lintel over a recess, with ragged brickwork where it was connected to a Tudor service wing. The right return has two lower recesses over a plinth; the one to the left has a timber lintel and a lower arched head of four-centred design, while the one to the right has a lower arched head.

The four bays to the right have windows similar to those in the porch. These bays feature a plinth, a continuous plat band, and deep boxed eaves. The roof is hipped over the porch, with five dormers featuring leaded lights and moulded cornices. The right return has two large external stacks with tall capped shafts arranged diagonally, with four shafts facing the front and three facing the rear, and tall casements between the stacks. Windows facing the front are blocked. A similar triple-shafted stack is located at the rear of the main range to the right.

The rear elevation is similar, with a triple-shafted stack, and a double depth to the three bays to the left, with twin gables to the rear. The rear staircase gable projects at right angles on the right return. The fenestration is irregular due to the staircases. Cambered heads are found on two attic windows here, along with a continuous plat band and a three-light dormer to the right.

A three-bay extension to the left of the entrance replaced a former service wing; this extension is one storey and attic high and features similar windows and dormers. A triple-shafted stack is attached to the cement rendered left gable wall of the 17th-century range.

The interior includes a 17th-century screen with two arched openings leading to the Hall. The hall is ornamented by 17th-century oak panelling below a series of good mid-16th-century Renaissance stone medallions with profile busts of Roman emperors, believed to have been brought from Sopwell Priory or Lee Hall, carved in low relief. A 17th-century parlour chimneypiece features carved relief of fruit and flowers. A dog-leg staircase at the rear of the hall has square newels with carved heads and drops, barley sugar balusters, and a moulded handrail. Upper floors retain some panelling and chimneypieces with 17th-century ornament painted on timber. The De Havilland Mosquito was designed at Salisbury Hall. The house sits within a moat.