Catton Old Hall

Catton Old Hall is a manor house dated 1632, with later additions. It is constructed of brick, flint, and re-used stone, featuring stone dressings and a roof made of plaintile and pantile. The building has a 'T'-shaped plan, with two storeys and attics, and 1½ storeys at the rear. The five-bay facade is arranged as a,b,c,b,a, with a central doorway that has a 20th-century door. The windows are either five or three lights, with rendered chamfered mullions and rendered quoining, vertical wrought iron stay bars, and ovolo moulded hood moulds. The door has rendered reveals with chamfers and ogee stops, and there is a rendered pediment with obelisks at the base and apex. The building features a flint plinth and Flemish bond brickwork, along with a sundial over the door that has a wrought iron cursor on a rendered ground, topped with a segmental pediment. There are rendered lozenge shapes at the ends, with octagons featuring relief crosses above. The east and west gable walls have blocked two-light windows at the first floor and two one-light windows in the attic storey. A plat band is present at the attic floor level, along with moulded brick kneelers and stone finial bases. The parapet gables have gable stacks with triple octagonal shafts and a decorated tile ridge. The rear elevation is made of flint with scattered fenestration, including two and three-light windows with brick dressings and a central date plaque featuring the monogram IB. A Wedge dormer is present in the roof. The rear service range has scattered 19th-century fenestration and garage doors, topped with a hipped roof. A range of stores and privies extends at right angles to form a rear courtyard. Inside, there is a straight 17th-century stair in the main range leading to the first floor, with turned balusters, and a straight flight above to the second floor. The ground floor at the west end features 17th-century panelling with arch-headed panels, a carved fire surround with tapered fluted pilasters, chamfered and stopped transverse beams, and some 17th-century boarded doors. The roof is a butt purlin type. The monogram IB stands for James Bussey, and the sundial is inscribed "Redeem the Time" and dated 1810.