Mangreen Hall

Mangreen Hall is a house with a facade dating from around 1700, built on an earlier core, with additions made around 1910. The building is constructed in brick laid in Flemish bond with coloured headers and is roofed with plain tiles.

The house is of double depth plan. To the right extends a range with a gable to the north, probably dating from the 17th century. To the left is an attached range with a gable to the north and a single bay set back to around 1700. Various additions were made to the rear around 1910. The building rises to 2 storeys with an attic.

The principal facade faces north and contains 5 bays. Two shaped gables span the full width, fitted with decorative tie irons. A platband runs at first floor level and continues to the attics. The first floor is offset by approximately 15 centimetres. Windows are flush sashes with thick glazing bars and flat arches: 4 to the ground floor, 5 to the first floor, and 1 to each gable (the latter with renewed flat arches). At the centre is an 18th-century classical doorway with 2 fluted Tuscan pilasters, a segmental pediment, and a frieze with triglyphs and guttae. The door itself has 10 raised and fielded panels.

The left return to the east features a dentil cornice and an external stack with 2 openings matching those on the north facade. A semi-circular headed fixed light with glazing bars is set to the first floor right. Two 19th-century cast iron drainheads with shield and "C" for Churchman mark the elevation. A single bay with 2 storeys and attic is set back to the left, with shaped gables to north and south, platbands and openings matching the north facade. The return of this bay has a rebuilt brick facade with recessed arches containing glazing bars.

The right return to the west displays 4 bays over 2 storeys. Two external stacks are present, each with 2 shafts; the stack to the right is partially rebuilt. The first floor is offset, with platband and openings matching the north facade, and a brick dentil cornice runs along the top. Three 19th-century drainheads match those on the left return. A lower, 2-storeyed, 2-bay addition around 1910 extends to the right. This addition has a platband and brick dentil cornice. The first bay contains double flush sashes with thick glazing bars and flat arches. The second bay features a 2-storeyed semi-circular forward bay with parapet. The ground floor here contains a double-leaved French window with glazing bars, and 2 sashes with thick glazing bars; the first floor has 3 similar sashes.

The rear of the double-depth ranges shows 2 shaped gables dating to around 1700. The rear of the circa-1910 addition exhibits similar gables to left and right return, with openings matching the west facade and a keyed oculus with glazing bars in the gable attic. A late 20th-century glazed extension extends from the ground floor. Various additions from the 17th to late 20th century flank the south and east, including a 2-storeyed cell with late 17th-century brick (renewed) featuring a cross window with original latches to the first floor west.

Interior: An open well openstring staircase approximately 1.5 metres wide occupies the rear of the west range. It has twisted balusters with acanthus leaves and vase bases, brackets carved with floral designs, and a panelled dado with a short section of fluted frieze. A recess at the first turn features an acanthus leaf frieze to pilasters and a basket arch. A semi-circular headed keyed doorway with panelled door and panelling below the stair string is present. An oval dome rises above the stairwell, decorated with an oak leaf garland moulding and enclosed within a rectangle; an egg and dart moulding runs to the cornice of the stair.

The east range contains a 3-tiered roof, formerly hipped to the north, with some timber framing to the west wall. The roof of the west range is later. Ground and first floor doors are of 6 raised and fielded panels; window glazing bars interior feature ovolo mouldings. A fireplace to the north of the west range has reeded pilasters with acanthus leaf necking and Dutch tiles. A cellar extends below the south end of the west range. The single bay set back to the east has a quarter-moulded bridging beam to ground and first floors with lamb's tongue stops, and a semi-circular headed keyed doorway to the south of the ground floor.