Blore Hall

The house at Blore Hall dates back to the early 16th century, with later alterations and additions through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with ashlar dressings and coursed limestone rubble for an extension. The roof is tiled, and there are brick integral end stacks and a ridge stack.

The original 16th-century layout comprised two parallel ranges, running east-west: a north range projecting westward, and a south range projecting eastward. The north range was extended eastward in the 17th or 18th century to match the east end of the south range. A mid-19th-century extension runs north-south at the west end of the north range.

The south front is two storeys high and has a roughly 1:2 window arrangement, with a further blind bay width to the right. A set-back north range is on the left, featuring a mid-19th-century porch and a 19th-century buttress which flank a 2-light flat-faced mullioned window. A central first-floor window from the 16th century has a four-centred head and an inserted 19th-century casement. The south range to the right has 16-pane glazing bar sashes with wedge lintels; the first-floor window on the right is blind, and a similar, narrower window is to the left. A six-panel door with a rectangular overlight is located to the left of centre. The left-hand gable of the south range has 16th-century windows on the ground floor left and the first floor centre, each containing two four-centred arch lights with sunken spandrels; the ground floor window has a hollow chamfered dripstone band.

The north front is two storeys high, with irregular fenestration and roughly four bays width. A lower, two-storey gabled extension is on the right. The roof line of the extension to the left obscures a blocked 16th-century window containing two four-centred arch lights and sunken spandrels. A casement window is on the first floor to the right of centre, within a 16th-century window frame. A large glazing bar casement replaces a 16th-century window below, of which one jamb survives. A large cross-window with a flat-faced mullion and transom, possibly a stair window, is to the left of centre, immediately left of a straight joint in the brickwork.

The east front is two and three storeys high, and has two gabled bays with a central straight joint. The left-hand bay has 16-pane glazing bar sashes with wedge lintels. The right-hand bay has flat-faced mullioned windows; those on the ground and first floors to the left and right have two lights, while the second-floor centre window has four lights.