The Hallams

The Hallams is a country house built between 1894 and 1895 by Richard Norman Shaw for Charles Durant Hodgson, constructed in a vernacular style. The exterior is brick with tile hanging above, incorporating some half-timbered gables and a colourwashed roughcast entrance porch. The roofs are tiled. The house is two storeys and attics, with a hipped dormer window to the left. A front stack has a corbelled top, and there are additional stacks to the left and right of the porch, along with an end stack on the left. The first floor to the left has irregular leaded fenestration with six windows; the right side has three windows, some using hexagonal glazing. A stone mullioned window with decorated glazing is found on the ground floor to the right. A large, wood-framed, mullioned and transomed oriel-type angle bay featuring hexagonal glazing projects to the right. The central, gabled porch has a hip roof, with a five-light diamond-pane attic window, two four-light windows to the first floor, and diagonal bracing on the frame. The porch’s first floor is jettied and it contains arched doors with tracery panels. A hip-roofed, single-storey service wing projects to the right, including a flat dormer and two ground floor windows. The garden front features two half-timbered gables, tile hung between and below with canted courses over the ground floor, and stone dressed casement fenestration with decorative glazing. A crowstepped stack is situated on the right.

Inside, the Great Hall functions as both an entrance and has a wood block floor. A screen passage extends to the end of three bays, with the upper part designed as a gallery featuring panelled balustrades. A three-bay crown post roof extends over the gallery. There is a leaded angle bay window, a barrel vault over the gallery, and a large fireplace on one wall. The Hallams is documented as Shaw's final house employing a medieval hall plan.