Murton Hall, Adjoining Store And Area Wall To Rear

Murton Hall is a large house dating from the 14th century, with significant additions and alterations in later centuries. The original fabric consists of coursed rubble, while later additions are constructed from sandstone blocks with quoins. The roof is covered in graduated slate and features stone coping, kneelers, and a brick chimney at the east end. Stone chimneys are also present to the west end and east of the centre, and a reused 14th-century gabled lantern sits to the west of the centre. An early 19th-century outshut extends to the rear of the property.

The house is two storeys high and has six bays. The front, west return, and rear feature 16th-century mullioned windows of 2, 3, and 4 lights, all with hoodmoulds and labels. A single multi-light mullioned and transomed window is positioned on the ground floor front and rear. A 16th-century embattled porch fronts the building, housing an outer part-glazed door within a chamfered surround, with three blank shields above a false four-centred head. The inner door features a four-centred head.

Inside, a shouldered arch frames the service door at the south end of the entrance passage, with a spit rack on the adjacent wall. A large fireplace with an elliptical head is a prominent feature in the centre ground floor room. The west end retains a dais, now separated by a wall incorporating two capitals, potentially from freestanding columns. C17 panelling is present in the room. The undercroft has a flagged floor, along with a blocked window and original external entrance with a pointed head in the west return.

A lower, two-storey building, now used as a store and adjoining the east end, has a plank door inserted beneath an ornate 14th-century window head. This window head features three trefoiled ogee lights with sculpted spandrels and two blank shields. Internally, two service doors (now blocked) once opened into the present entrance passage to the main house. A mural stair, with an external thickening, leads to a first-floor hay loft, containing a chamfered fireplace and a later door in the end wall. A blocked door in the north wall originally led into the first floor of a former 17th-century wing, which is listed separately. Two king-post roof trusses are also present.

Historical evidence suggests the original 14th-century hall was lower, shorter, and wider, with side rooms accessible internally through openings featuring decorative capitals (possibly an arcade). The hall was later reduced in width, heightened, and lengthened, likely during the 16th century. The area wall to the rear incorporates a pointed head of a 14th-century window.