The Old Hall And Wall Enclosing Garden To East

The Old Hall is a house, originally a farmhouse and later a vicarage, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with subsequent additions and alterations in the 17th, 18th, early 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and largely clad with roughly-coursed ragstone rubble, with red brick quoins. Part of the east elevation, to the north of the stack, incorporates chequered red and grey brick. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The original structure comprised three timber-framed bays and a stack bay, though the west end bay has since been truncated. A mid-17th century wing of one timber-framed bay and stack bay extends south from the east end bay of the main range. An 18th-century facade is visible on the east gable end of the main range, continuing into an 18th-century addition, of which only the east ground floor wall now survives, located to the north of the east end bay.

The building is two storeys high, with an attic and a cellar, and stands on a stone plinth. The east elevation features a chamfered brick plat band, extending under and to the right (north) of the stack, and continuing north along the remains of the 18th-century addition. The roof is gabled to the south end, hipped with a gablet to the north end, the hip returning west along the main range. The main range’s roof is half-hipped to the west. A filleted brick stack rises from the east slope of the roof, positioned at the junction of the main range and the mid-17th century wing. A ridge stack is located towards the west end of the main range, and a hipped dormer is also present. The fenestration is irregular, with one early 20th century three-light latticed casement to the 17th-century wing and even fenestration to the brick section, comprising three blocked sashes, including one beneath the stack, and one 12-light sash. Three 12-pane sashes are present on the ground floor of this section, mirroring the first floor, all with beaded brick architraves and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Two blind windows are incorporated into the surviving wall to the north. A half-glazed door is situated under the stack. A narrow early 20th century stone addition extends from the south side of the main range.

Internally, the building features jowled principal posts, chamfered beams, and chamfered stone fireplaces. The main range has a clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, windbraces, and curved queen-struts to the rafters. The 17th-century wing has an aligned butt purlin roof. A north-east addition is recorded as having been destroyed by fire in 1820. The building was formerly known as Hall Farm Place.

The garden wall, dating from the 18th century, is constructed from chequered red and grey brick on a stone plinth, standing approximately 10 feet high. It runs east for around 160 feet from the north-east end of the house, returning south to enclose the garden.