New Hall

New Hall is a house situated on a corner, primarily dating to the 17th century, though incorporating significantly older fabric. It is constructed of dressed coursed limestone with a stone slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, featuring two gables facing Bisley Street and New Street, along with a cross-gabled wing. The gables are coped, with a small stack on the right gable and a brick stack on the left gable.

The Bisley Street frontage is two-and-a-half storeys high, featuring chamfered mullion casements with leading and stopped hoods. The gables have 2-light windows over 3-light windows. At ground floor level, a window on the left shares a stepped hood with a blocked doorway, while the right side has a square bay with a hipped roof, possibly a former shop front. The New Street frontage also has two gabled sections, with double-chamfered mullion windows with stopped hoods, presenting a 2-over-3-over-3-light configuration, all leaded. A central 3-light window likely marks the original door position. The return side from Bisley Street has a 20th-century door and some single and two-light casements. A small gable over a stairwell contains 2-over-3-light casements. A single-storey unit infills part of the L-shape. A plinth is visible to the main frontages.

Internally, a ground-floor room in the southeast corner features a 4-compartment ceiling formed from deep, chamfered beams. There is also a large square stone fireplace with a moulded surround. An adjoining room has a single heavy beam and a late medieval-style stone fireplace with a haunched lintel, moulded surround, and moulded overmantel. The first floor over the southeast corner has a smaller square stone fire opening similar to that below. A portion of an arch-braced cruck truss is visible, cut through by the chimney breast but completed above the collar. The arch brace is moulded, indicating that this part was originally an open hall. Much of the roof structure has been renewed, but original pegged rafters remain in some areas, staggered on either side of the slope.

The cellar, located under part of the New Street front, includes a stone half-barrel vault that appears to abut a former external wall. One corner is enclosed in an unexplained manner. The building is recognised as a Hill House, said to have originated in 1410 and to have served as a Wool Hall in 1429. A clothier resided here from 1580. Modifications were undertaken when New Street was created in the 15th century, and further substantial works occurred in the early 20th century when fireplaces on the south gable wall were reset and that section of the building was reduced in size.