Pipe Hall

Pipe Hall is a late 18th to early 19th century muniment room that has been repurposed as an outbuilding. It is constructed of red-brown brick in Flemish bond and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building stands two stories tall with a one-bay street frontage and a two-bay entrance front facing west, which is unfenestrated. To the right, there is a lower two-story, three-bay range.

The entrance front is accessed by paired flights of seven stone steps leading to a door that has six fielded panels and a divided fanlight above. The doorcase is adorned with fluted pilasters and an open dentilled pediment. The eaves project with dentils, and the roof is hipped with a stack at the rear. The lower range to the right has a board door on the ground floor to the left, small-paned windows, and external steps leading to the right return.

On the left return facing the road, there is a 16-pane sash window in a flush wood architrave with a flat stretcher arch on each floor. Inside, there is a fine 18th-century staircase located in the southwest corner, to the right of the entrance. This staircase features two straight flights with turned vase-and-column knopped balusters. At the half landing, a six-panel door opens into the first floor of the lower three-bay range, and at the top of the stairs, the opening to the upper room is screened by a panelled partition.

The building includes a large half cellar with brick shelving and remnants of a large fireplace, while the upper rooms contain plain stone fireplaces. There is no ground-floor access between the two ranges, but the external staircase to the right of the three-bay range leads to the upper, now unpartitioned, room, which can also be accessed from the staircase of the front range. The ground floor on the left has a large fireplace, while the right has a small plain stone surround. The name Pipe Hall is believed to have originated from its historical use as a storage place for deeds and records in metal tubes. The building is notable for its lack of windows and the presence of fireplaces, which supports its original purpose. The rear range may have served as a stable and hayloft, but during the 19th and 20th centuries, the ground floor functioned as a bakery, complete with a large fireplace and oven.