Weare Giffard Hall

Weare Giffard Hall is a large house, rebuilt after 1454 for Martin Fortescue. It was altered in the late 16th century for Hugh Fortescue, and remodelled, restored, and extended to the rear in 1832. The building is constructed of uncoursed and coursed slatestone rubble, with slate roofs, and stone end and ridge stacks. A lateral stone stack from the 15th century is visible on the front, and stone stacks date to the 19th century at the rear.

The front elevation has a 2:2:3 fenestration pattern, rising in stages along the slope. The three-window range to the right contains a truncated lateral stack and tympanum arches above 20th-century windows. A crenellated porch, dating to the early 19th century, is centrally positioned with a 15th-century moulded arched doorway. This doorway is flanked by label moulds above round-arched lights. To the right of the porch, a 15th-century two-light window with a cinquefoiled head is visible above a label mould, and to the left, label moulds feature demi-figures carved on the stops above early 19th century two-light windows with cinquefoiled and ogee heads. The left side wall displays early 19th-century fenestration arranged in a 1:2:1 bay pattern, with gabled projecting wings flanking a recessed central hall range. Label moulds with various figure stops are positioned above two-light mullioned and transomed windows featuring cusped heads and cinquefoiled ogee heads. The central range has a 15th-century lateral stack and a fine 15th-century moulded 2-centred arched doorway. This doorway incorporates running carvings of trailing foliage.

At the rear, a lateral stack and a fine crenellated porch, dating from the early 19th century, incorporate late 15th-century features. A label mould with angels holding shields carved on the stops is above a 4-centred moulded-arched doorway, with vine trails carved into the architrave and shields within the spandrels. To the right is a hood mould with head stops over a 2-centred moulded arch carving and some 19th-century inserted plain voussoirs. To the left is a depressed arch above a small early 19th-century window with trefoiled panels in the intrados of a 15th-century rerearch. The building retains stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.