Castle Hale

Castle Hale is a detached house set in its own grounds, with parts dating from the 17th century, 18th century, and 20th century. The building features limestone ashlar or coursed stone with a stone slate roof on the earlier section and a Welsh slate roof on the later addition. The original 17th-century structure is arranged in a U-shape and has two storeys and an attic, with two saddle-back coped gables. Each gable contains two over three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with stopped hoods, and there is a central 20th-century oculus. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century door with a hood, three 20th-century single lights, and to the left, a deep 17th-century stone lintel over a moulded surround with a glazed door.

The left return of the early block forms a tight U-plan and is attached to the later building. The east gate is coped and features a finely carved rebus. The south-facing elevation has a cross gable with two over two plus two-light mullioned casements with hoods, and on the ground floor, there is a three-light window and a blocked door under a stepped hood. The recessed unit has three storeys and an attic, with two small coped gables in a parapet and two and three-light casements. To the left, there is a good early oculus in a decorated square surround above a three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casement, with later lights under a continuous string and a 20th-century projecting porch on the right.

The garden front of the 18th-century block is two storeys high, featuring a 2:1:2-windowed arrangement with plate glass porches, but the central section has a Venetian window on the first floor in a pedimented stepped forward unit above a four-columned Roman Doric portico that covers a glazed door with sidelights. This front has a plat band and cornice with a parapet. To the right, there is a single bay return, and to the left, a section dated 1939 includes octagonal single-storey bays with a continuous frieze, moulded cornice, parapet, and coping. A Venetian window is set under an open pediment with a balustrade, with two windows to the left and a French door leading to the bay roof on the right. Castle Hale has a long history and a complex development. The interior has not been inspected.