Burton Hall

Burton Hall is a snooker club that was originally a house. It was dismantled in 1870 in Norway and reconstructed on its current site for John Fulford, a local wool merchant. The building is made entirely of reputedly fireproof timber on a granite plinth and features a gable-ended slate roof with irregular brick chimneys. The plan is a symmetrical H-shape with interconnecting rooms on the ground floor and a large central hall.

The exterior has two storeys and a cellar. The garden front is symmetrical with a window arrangement of 1:3:1, where the outer windows have three lights in gabled breaks and the inner ones are two-light casements with transoms and labels. The first-floor outer windows have panels over the centre lights. A verandah sits between the breaks, leading to the lawn via central steps. The entrance front features a window arrangement of 1:2:1, with outer breaks and a large central gabled porch adorned with elaborate fretwork and carved decoration, including a bargeboard. The original doors have fretted lower panels, and there is a gabled oriel on brackets on the east return elevation.

Inside, the hall is very good and virtually complete, retaining most of its cladding and hand-painted art nouveau decoration. Notable fittings include fretted ceiling roses and cornices, decorative door furniture, and a wide staircase. The walls are lined with tongue and groove planks, and some rooms feature elaborate cusped arcading below the cornice and dado levels.