Spider Hall

Spider Hall is a house dating from the late 16th and 17th centuries, with likely earlier origins, and featuring 19th and 20th-century alterations and additions. The house is timber-framed and rendered, with sections cased in painted brick, and has a tile roof and red brick stacks. It is arranged in an L-shape, created by several phases of building. The hall range comprises two storeys and has a three-cell plan, with a two-storey cross wing added to the left. This cross wing has been further extended by a single-storey and attic range, alongside a later low, attached service building and a rear gabled cross wing containing a stair. The house likely began as a lobby-entry plan. The current entrance is within the cross wing, at an angle to the main range, and features a six-panel door within a pilastered doorcase. Windows include sixteen-pane sashes, one under a brick segmental arch, other sashes within the single-storey range, 20th-century three-light casements to the first floor and main range, a 20th-century French window to the gable end of the main range, and a pair of roof lights to the single-storey range. A stack sits between the cross wing and the main range, with another off-centre on the ridge of the main range.

Inside the cross wing is a red brick inglenook fireplace under a timber bressumer with curved and V-chamfer stop. The single-storey range has chamfered beams and exposed joists. There are very worn brick floors throughout. The main range features chamfered arched fireplaces near the stack, likely remodelled at some point. A room to the right of the stack contains a 17th-century wall painting depicting panelling in black on a white background, with floral scroll borders retouched in the 20th century. Timber framing is partially visible on the first floor, including a wall plate with edge-halved scarf joints, cambered chamfered tie beams with replaced arch braces. Wide pegged floorboards are present. A room to the left of the stack has a 17th-century cupboard door and a shutter groove for a window, now blocked by the cross wing. The main range has a clasped purlin roof with the date 1830 painted or chalked on it.