Wierton Hall

Wierton Hall is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the late 16th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the later 16th century, early 17th century, 18th century, and early to mid-19th century. The building is timber-framed and now clad in channelled render, with a plain tile roof.

Originally a late 16th-century T-plan lobby-entry house, it comprises a front range of two and a half timber-framed bays with a central stack bay, and a rear wing of two timber-framed bays. The rear wing has sides which extend back from the principal posts, to the left of the stack bay and to the right of a half bay to the right of the stack bay. A bay was added at right angles to the left side of the rear wing, and an early 17th-century bay filled the gap between this added bay and the left bay of the front range. Further, an 18th-century bay was inserted at the angle between the right bay of the front range and the first bay of the rear wing, creating a near-rectangular overall shape.

The front elevation has two storeys, set on a rendered plinth and topped by a hipped roof. A multiple brick ridge stack is slightly to the left of centre. The front has a regular arrangement of three windows: two two-light mullioned sash windows (each with two panes and without horns), and a central two-pane sash. Similar windows are on the ground floor, all with blind boxes. A central panelled door is topped by a rectangular fanlight, and is recessed under an open, flat-roofed Doric porch with a moulded cornice. The rear has a lower ridge, a jettied gable, and a gable end stack; an eight-light mullioned window is in the gable. An added rear bay has an even lower ridge, and is hipped to the left. A 17th-century infilling section has a steeply-pitched hipped roof, matching the height of the front range, with the ridge continuing across to the hipped 18th-century infilling to the right.

Inside, exposed timber framing is visible. There are chamfered stone fireplaces with wooden bressumers on each side of the stack on the ground floor, and a smaller stone fireplace with a four-centred arched head on the first floor to the left of the stack. A small stone fireplace with chamfered jambs and a bressumer is found in a closet in front of the stack, with a bressumer displaying spit machine marks marking the end stack of the wing. A stairwell is located within the centre of the first bay of the rear wing, with a 17th-century newel post surviving in the attic. A horizontally-sliding boarded shutter is present in the 16th-century left addition, while the front windows have early to mid-19th century panelled vertically-sliding shutters. The roof includes a clasped purlin structure with diminishing principal rafters and windbraces, to both the front range and rear wing. The building was formerly known as Wierton Hall Farm.