Hestley Hall

Hestley Hall is a manor farmhouse dating to the first half of the 16th century, originally built in two ranges forming an L-shaped plan. A large extension was added in the early 19th century, and the front range was once even longer. The construction is timber-framed and plastered, with some decorative panelled plasterwork. The roof is tiled, with a hipped profile over the 19th-century addition, featuring paired bracketed eaves cornices. The building is two stories high. Windows are mullion and transom casement style, likely dating to the early 19th century, and have diamond-leaded glass. The 19th-century addition presents a symmetrical three-bay façade with a tall central window above a late 19th-century stuccoed porch featuring a semi-circular entrance arch. A six-panel raised and fielded door sits within the porch, protected by a pedimented architrave. A substantial internal stack is present, with the original shaft extended in later times.

The rear wing exhibits a jettied side wall supported by original brackets, two springing from carved buttress-shafts, alongside a moulded bressummer. A gable end features a first-floor buttress-shaft to the corner post and original brackets at the ends of the wallplates. Some 18th-century casement windows are also present. The building includes an internal stack with an oblong shaft, the lower portion of which is rendered. A further 18th–19th-century stack is positioned against the gable end. Several mullioned windows to the rear of both wings exist, some of which are reproductions.

The front range underwent internal alterations in the 19th century, incorporating a staircase around 1900 with a twisted-baluster design within the forward addition. A ground-floor room to the left of the stack has a chamfered-joist ceiling and a 19th-century stone fireplace originally from Flixton Hall. One upper room contains ceiling beams decorated with stencilled foliage on a red ochre ground, believed to be from around 1525. The roof over the front range has clasped purlins and arched-braced collars; the section to the right of the stack was rebuilt during the construction of the 19th-century addition.

The rear wing is less altered, particularly on the upper floor. One end chamber retains three cavetto-moulded axial bridging beams, plain joists, and a plank cornice, with a four-centre arched doorway. An adjoining larger chamber is now divided into two, also featuring cavetto floorbeams. The ground floor ceiling of this area has closely-spaced chamfered joists. An end gable displays remnants of original brick nogging, now plastered over externally. The roof is largely intact, incorporating wind-braced clasped purlins.