Bayfield Hall

Bayfield Hall is a country house comprising a mid-18th-century enlargement of a 16th-century house. The building is constructed of brick with stone rusticated quoins, with pantiles to the front range and plain tiles to the rear range. It consists of a double range with a rear service wing, rising to three storeys.

The principal facade faces south and presents five wide symmetrical bays beneath a brick parapet with stone cap and a cornice with modillions. The centre three bays break forward, articulated with rusticated stone quoins. Windows to the ground and first floors are large eight-paned sashes with glazing bars, while the second floor has six-pane sashes with glazing bars, all set within stone surrounds. A central doorway features a pediment supported by two Tuscan columns, each with egg and dart echinus and pulvinated frieze, with a double-leaved glazed door. Cross stacks are positioned to the left and right of the centre three bays.

The west facade is divided into two sections: four bays to the south in brick, and four bays to the north in gault brick. A central pilaster strip in red brick separates these sections, with rusticated quoins of brick pilasters at the angles. The right four bays of the ground floor have low sashes with glazing bars, while the first bay has steps to a terrace. Eight eight-pane sashes light the first floor and eight six-pane sashes the second floor. The left four bays of the ground floor are of colourwashed brick with a sash to the third bay. A forward single-storey addition extends northwards from the first bay in English bond with recessed panels and a parapet, containing two sashes. A glazed conservatory with wooden fluted Tuscan columns and a flat entablature adjoins the second bay and the right return of the addition.

The east facade comprises four bays with two gable ends. The left angle features a clasping brick pilaster with rusticated stone quoins. The left gable has a wide central stack, external to the first and second floors only, while the right gable contains an internal stack and a doorway dating to around 1945, fitted with a classical doorcase featuring a pediment, square fluted columns, and a door with panels grouped 2:3:3. Sash windows of varying sizes with glazing bars and stone lintels light the facade, and an oval window with glazing bars appears on the second floor of the left gable.

The rear elevation features a fixed stair window with semi-circular head and glazing bars, alongside varied and scattered fenestration. A three-bay, three-storey 19th-century service wing extension projects to the left with a linking bay, containing a three-light transomed casement to the ground floor and sashes to the first and second floors facing east and north, with moulded brick bands below the sills. A single-storey extension to the right served as a dairy, featuring a twelve-pane fixed window with cast iron glazing bars and tudor rose bosses beneath a segmental head.

Interior features of note include a ground floor central front room of three bays with moulded ceiling and ceiling rose. Fireplaces at either end of this room have console brackets and pediments to their surrounds. The right room has a plaster ceiling, while the left room features a cornice frieze. An Adam style fireplace in white marble inlaid with green marble stands in one room, with fluted pilasters, a frieze of anthemions, and a central marble relief of classical deities. A rear left room displays a geometric plaster ceiling and reeded doorframes with patera, containing a fireplace in white and green marble with a relief plaque depicting a sleeping god with hound. The staircase is a wide open-well design with mahogany wreathed handrail and panelled dado. The library occupies the central three bays of the first floor front, featuring a plaster ceiling with three roses and a moulded cornice. White marble fireplaces at either end are decorated with tapering pilasters, meander decoration, and two small marble reliefs of putti eating grapes.