The Old Hall

The Old Hall is a Grade II* listed building originally constructed as a Lobby-Entrance type farmhouse, dated 1608, with a facade datestone that was repositioned from the north gable-end. The facade and extensions were added in 1679, as indicated by the facade tie-ends. The building is made of brick and some flint, topped with pan-tiled roofs. It stands two storeys high with attics and cellars.

The east facade features nine bays, including seven blind windows. The windows have mullion and transom frames with metal casements, some positioned beneath skewback arches with cambered soffits. The front door, located opposite an off-centre axial stack, is accompanied by a later porch. There is one gabled dormer and a gable-end stack, along with a surviving wooden ovolo-moulded mullion window on the north gable-end. The building has crow-stepped gables and various extensions at the rear, which include two fragmentary ovolo-moulded mullion and transom attic windows.

The symmetrical south facade, added in 1679, consists of five bays with two crow-stepped attic gables. It features skewback arches, rusticated at the first-floor center, with mullion and transom window frames, and five blind windows. The 18th-century raised and fielded panelled front door is framed by a Doric doorcase and flanked by two plat-bands.

Inside, there is a very fine staircase, likely from 1679, with turned balusters in an attenuated-vase form and large panelled newels with pendants. Several 18th-century panelled rooms feature moulded cornices, dado rails, and raised and fielded panels. There are three overmantels adorned with contemporary painted landscapes, along with a fine coved recess flanked by fluted pilasters. The original roofs remain intact.