Little Hall

Little Hall is a farmhouse dating back to the 16th century, with possible origins even earlier, and remodelled and extended around 1600. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, with an asbestos slate roof featuring gable ends. The building has a lateral front hall stack with a brick shaft, a brick stack to the left gable end, and an axial brick stack to the rear wing, forming an overall L-shape. The eastern range probably originally formed part of an open hall house of 5 bays, remodelled in the 17th century to create a symmetrical through-passage plan with a parlour to the left and a hall to the right. At the same time, a right-angled, two-storey extension was added to the rear right end of the hall.

The east front has two windows: 4-light casements with 6 panes to the left, and a 3-light casement with 6 panes to the right. A slate canopy features above the 17th-century doorway, which has an elaborately carved door surround with rams horn and scroll-stopped durns to the ovolo-moulding. The original framed and ledged plank door retains scratch mouldings to the ledges, cover strips, an old door handle and lock. An ovolo-mullion window, 3-lights, sits above a lean-to with a slate roof, and a short extension wall from the west side incorporates a weathered 17th-century chamfered door surround and a 4-plank door giving access to the rear courtyard. Gable ends feature 4-light king mullion windows, ovolo moulded, on each floor, with a stone dripmould to the ground floor window.

Inside, the hall has an ovolo-moulded door surround with large bulbous stops to the durns between the hall and the rear wing. A partially cased, stop-chamfered door surround is located at the base of the stair in the rear wing. The hall also features a chamfered bressumer and T-shaped chamfered ceiling beams. The upper storey contains a narrow, stop-chamfered door surround to the chamber over the parlour, and a chamfered door surround with large scroll-stops to the durns between the chambers over the hall and rear wing. The latter chamber has a 17th-century moulded plaster cornice with a fragment of decorative, foliated plasterwork frieze near the stairs, continuing into the cupboard above. The building has raised crucks, two of which are jointed, two boxed in, and curve deeply into the chamber walls of the east range, suggesting the range may originally have been open to the roof. One truss over the rear wing also has short curved feet.