Tangley Hall

Tangley Hall is a late 16th or early 17th century farmhouse, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with an artificial stone slate roof featuring stepped coped verges to the south gable end of the north-south range. The building follows a basic L-plan, with the hall range aligned east-west and a roughly equal-length cross-wing projecting northwards on the west side. The south side of the hall range has a former three-light mullion window (without mullions) with a dripstone above on each floor to the left, and a single three-light cavetto-moulded mullion window to the left and two to the right of a chamfered four-centred arch containing a 17th century nail-studded plank door. There are three-light leaded gabled dormers in the roof slope, an integral end stack with a dripstone and moulded capping to the right, and a ridge stack to the far left. A corresponding doorway on the north side (a cross passage) has two windows on each floor to the left, with one window to the right on the first floor and two to the right on the ground floor; these windows all have leaded cavetto-moulded mullions and dripstones. The west side of the north-south range features a three-light cavetto-moulded mullion window with a dripstone on each floor to the left, a boarded door in a chamfered wood surround to the left, and a small leaded casement to the right at ground floor level. A gable to the left of centre has an infilled two-light mullion window with a dripstone to the apex, and a three-light leaded casement with a wood lintel on each floor to the right; there’s a straight joint to the left of the ground floor window. A six-panel door (with the top panels now glazed) is located to the right of the gable, alongside a three-light leaded casement with a wood lintel on each floor. A late 20th century leaded gabled dormer is visible in the roof slope to the right of the gable, with an integral ashlar end stack featuring a moulded dripstone and capping to the right, and a similar ridge stack on the line of the gable. A low range attached to the right gable end has coped verges with a decorative stone finial. A plank door on the west side, with a glazed panel and wood lintel, is above a leaded gabled eaves dormer. The right gable end has two four-centred chamfered windows on the ground floor, with the left one infilled and the right one containing a leaded fixed-light window. A chamfered mullion window with six narrow lights and a moulded cill sits above, and there is a three-light cavetto-moulded mullion window to the back wall. The interior could not be inspected at the time of the 1987 resurvey, but is thought to be of interest.