Penstock Hall

Penstock Hall is a house dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The original timber-framed structure was later clad in red brick, with tile hanging on the left return. It has a plain tiled roof, with a hipped roof incorporating gablets and a central stack. The building sits on a plinth with a plat band. The front elevation has a regular pattern of windows; the upper floor features two leaded wooden casements, while the ground floor has two segmentally headed mullion and transomed leaded wooden casements (dating from the 20th century). A central half-glazed, panelled door is topped by a rectangular fanlight and a pediment supported by pilasters with entablature blocks. A rear wing, half-hipped and with a gabled half-dormer, extends from the main structure. Inside, the stop-chamfered cross-beamed ceiling retains mortice holes indicating former jettying, and a dragon beam is visible in the northern end room. An exposed framed rear wall, now internal to the rear wing, displays a diagonally-set wooden mullioned window. A good quality early 18th-century two-panelled, studded door also remains.