Hinderclay Hall

Hinderclay Hall is a farmhouse with origins in the 16th century, significantly extended and altered in the early to mid-17th century, again in the early 19th century, and further modified in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed with plastered walls and has yellow stock brick additions. The roofs are hipped, covered in black glazed tiles and red pantiles. The original layout is unclear, but the initial two and three-cell structures combine to form an "L" shape, with a larger early 19th-century "L" shaped addition interlocking to create a large half "H" plan. The house is two storeys high.

The early 19th-century front elevation is a parallel block added across the front of the earlier building, containing four bays. A central entrance is accessed by steps and features a six-panelled door, a fluted architrave with angle roundels, a modillioned cornice, and a rectangular fanlight with traceried arches. The windows are recessed sashes with stone sills, all under gauged brick flat arches. A modillioned eaves cornice runs along the top. A central ridge stack is present, along with an external stack to the right side.

The left return is an early 19th-century garden front of three bays, with a raised central section and a six-panelled door topped with a traceried semi-circular fanlight, set within a gauged brick round arch with a relieving arch. The sashes and cornice are similar to those on the front elevation, and there are two axial ridge stacks to the outer bays. A further 19th-century bay is set back to the rear, plastered, with an internal gable end stack.

Behind the main block is an early range consisting of three cells. It has 20th-century sashes, an axial ridge stack to the left of centre, and a steeply pitched roof that is hipped down to the 19th-century block on the right and to a lower ridge of a reroofed earlier two-cell range to the left. This section has two bays of 20th-century tripartite sashes, and an early 17th-century stack to the inner bay, featuring two conjoined hexagonal shafts. Open hipped slate-roofed verandahs extend from the gable end and outer side of the two-cell range.

Inside, the frame is largely concealed. The three-cell range has a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam. The two-cell range retains close studding from the 16th century with a mid-rail, and a mortise for a large arched brace to tie beam. There is an original chamfered doorway, interrupted by a restored five-light diamond mullioned window opening. The first floor was not inspected.