Amor Hall

Amor Hall is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with additions and alterations in the early 17th century and the mid-19th century. It is a timber-framed building, now rendered and finished to resemble ashlar, with a plain tile roof, the main range being crested. The roof is punctuated by brick stacks; one is axial and the other is external to the right return. The external stack on the left has curtailed detailing, while the stack to the right partly dates from around 1700 and is constructed of mixed brick bonds, set back at the base and first floor. The house is two storeys high, with a cellar beneath part of the building. It has a four-bay facade, with a crosswing to the left.

The front of the house has three ground-floor windows, each with three small panes, two of which are 19th century and one was renewed in 1987. A 19th-century canted porch with a tiled roof shelters a four-panel plank and muntin door beneath a label, and has blind tracery to the head of the panels, with four-pane fixed lights to either side. The first floor has a two-light casement window over the door, and three other three-light casements, all with labels. A small, inserted glazed light is to the left of the two-light window. Elaborate moulded brackets support a roll and billet moulded oversailing cornice. The crosswing to the left is now partially used as a garage, and has a hipped roof to the south-east. It features a two-light casement with a label to the side of the garage doors, and a small first-floor light above. The south-east face has two ground-floor six-pane, two-light casements, a three-light first-floor casement, and a two-light raking dormer casement. A 19th-century brick stack is linked to the roof by a tiled roof. A brick outshut with a slate roof is also present. At the rear of the crosswing, there is exposed timber framing as well as various casement windows. The rear of the main range has a brick ground-floor outshut with 19th and 20th-century openings and a slated roof, as well as three first-floor three-light, four-pane casements with labels. A single-light casement is visible to the rear of the stack on the right-hand return.

Inside, the cellar beneath the parlour has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and horizontal joists. The hall stack is enclosed with a fireplace inscribed "JTAD 185L (7 or 4) HT”. The cross beams in the hall have hollow and ogee mouldings, except for the right-hand component which is simply chamfered. Some chamfered joists are also present. The parlour to the right has a decorative plasterwork beam from around 1600, featuring a repeated motif of slender scrolls derived from lozenge shapes. There is a finely moulded ogee and filleted cornice. The kitchen has a simpler, plain chamfered longitudinal beam. On the first floor, some timber framing is visible, with jowled posts, while some beams have been crudely cut or covered. The hall has cross beams above. A blocked rear mullion window is visible from the attic stair, and remnants of a ground-floor window are at the front of the stack. The roof over the right-hand bay is of butt purlin construction. The remainder of the roof is a two-tier staggered purlin design with collars at random and struts to the lower purlins. A weatherboarded closed truss is between the roof builds. The crosswing has chamfered wall plates and jowled posts. The roof is covered and has horizontal ceiling joists, with some original ceiling and wall material in the garage.