Fyling Hall

Fyling Hall is a country villa, now functioning as a school, built in 1819 for John Barry. The building is constructed from herringbone-tooled sandstone and features a purple slate roof. It has a central block with irregular wings, standing three storeys tall and comprising four slightly irregular bays.

A later 19th-century three-bay ashlar porch is notable for its four pilasters that frame a four-panel door with sidelights and overlights at the center. Flanking the porch are sash windows, with 16-pane sashes in the outer bays across all three floors. The center features 12-pane sashes, and there is a round-arched stair window with key and impost blocks at the first floor. The windows are characterized by extended lintels and projecting cills.

To the right, there is a 1.5-storey, one-bay extension and a one-storey, two-bay extension, which are mostly blank except for a 16-pane sash and a flush door. The left extension includes a six-panel door beneath a dentil cornice and a 16-pane sash. The main house has a top cornice and parapet, along with corniced end chimneys.

The rear, or garden front, features three storeys and a basement with three bays. It is accessed by six wide stone steps leading to a central half-glazed door in a later glazed porch. Flanking canted bays, which are two storeys with a basement, have 8-pane sashes beside 12-pane sashes on each floor, with apron panels in between and top cornices with blocking courses; the basement openings have been altered. The upper floors have 12-pane central sashes and 16-pane side sashes on the top floor.

A left two-bay billiard-room extension includes French doors with external louvred shutters and a small terrace featuring a concrete reproduction balustrade.

Inside, the drawing room boasts a marble chimneypiece carved with fasces and paterae, along with the original grate. A plaster overmantel panel displays a relief of putti. The doors are six panels set in reeded architraves with paterae, and some have pedimented overdoors with angel heads, possibly added later. The elliptical hall arch and staircase feature three turned balusters per tread, shaped tread ends, and a grip handrail with a spiral and curtail step on the first floor.