New Hall

New Hall is a banqueting hall with offices, built around 1843-1845 by Philip Hardwick, along with PC Hardwick and John Loughborough Pearson. The building is constructed of red brick with blue diaper patterns and features stone dressings. It has a slate roof adorned with tall, decorative brick chimneys in the Tudor style.

The exterior consists of two storeys and a semi-basement, with a rectangular plan that includes a seven-bay hall, a lobby, and an entrance. It is linked at the north end to the adjoining Library. The gabled south end showcases a seven-light, traceried window flanked by square twin towers. The east and west elevations each have five eight-light square-headed windows, separated by stone-dressed buttresses topped with decorative stone finials that rise through an embattled parapet. There are also two large bay windows at the high table end and a two-tier glazed fleche with a weathervane. The lobby features an octagonal turret in the roof, and the entrance is approached by three flights of steps.

Inside, the hall boasts hammer-beam trusses and a screen at the south end. On the north wall, there is a fresco titled "Justice, The Hemicycle of The Law Givers," created by G F Watts between 1852 and 1859.

Historically, New Hall is noted as one of the earliest secular examples of the revived historicism in Victorian architecture. Philip Hardwick took over the project after his father fell seriously ill in 1843, ensuring the style was correctly executed. The building underwent restoration from 1984 to 1987, led by Peter Locke and Tony Dyson of Donald Insall Associates, with particular attention given to the roof and fresco.