The Old Hall With Boundary Wall To Front And Old Hall Cottage

The Old Hall, with its boundary wall and Old Hall Cottage, is a house that has been divided into two separate dwellings. The main section of the house dates back to 1657, with significant additions and alterations made in the late 18th century, and further subdivision into two homes in 1941. It is constructed of limestone rubble, with a rendered front facade, gritstone dressings, and a graduated stone slate roof. The boundary wall is made of dressed limestone, with gritstone gate piers.

The original house is two stories high and three bays wide, following a lobby entry plan with a central hall and a parlour to the left. There are projecting gabled wings at the rear of bays two and three, and a 19th-century wing to the rear of bay one (which is not considered to be of particular architectural interest). A gabled porch, with a half-glazed door set in a chamfered surround, is located to the right of bay one. The doorframe is inscribed with "R C 1657" and features a roll-moulded finial base at the gable apex. A smaller board door, set within stone jambs and a corniced lintel, is situated to the left of bay three. The windows are generally 4-pane sashes. The ground floor windows in bays one and two have moulded stone architraves; the left window in bay two has a narrower pair of frames separated by a wooden mullion. The ground floor and first-floor windows in bay three have plain stone surrounds.

The chimneys are noteworthy: a large ashlar chimney with a moulded base and cornice is on the right gable, another is on the left gable, and a third is located between bays two and three, all corniced. A rebuilt, banded chimney sits opposite the porch entrance. Further chimneys are present on the rear elevation: a semicircular external former stair turret and a first-floor stack, the latter pierced by a later inserted 4-pane window on the ground floor and featuring a corniced top similar to that on the front. Another banded stack is present on the left gable.

The left return side has an inserted ground-floor window and two 4-pane sashes to the first floor. A lean-to addition recessed to the left is not of special interest. The right return side features a small round-headed, chamfered window on both the ground and first floors, and an inserted 4-pane sash to the first floor, far right. The gable on the right return has slightly projecting through stones, placed seemingly at random.

Inside, the narrow inner door leads to the side of a large, blocked stack. The central room has two boxed-in spine beams and a built-in cupboard with a round arched, fielded panel door and a fluted architrave. Internal shutters are present in bays one and two. Bay three contains a large fireplace with a shallow chamfered arch, a cast iron oven and grate, a set pot, and remnants of a stone sink. Two spine beams with pyramid stops are visible on the ceiling. The interior of the later rear wing (Old Hall Cottage) was not inspected during a recent review. It is reported that the front range contains a massive king-post truss.

The boundary wall is approximately one meter high with ridged coping. It runs from the front left corner, broken by a narrow gateway opposite the porch, and continues for about 8 meters before meeting a field wall.