Middleton Hall

Middleton Hall is a hall dating from the early to mid-18th century, with a later early-19th century extension. The front is constructed of sandstone ashlar with chamfered quoins; the rear and sides are of pink and cream brick; the roof is slate, and there are brick stacks with stone caps. A wing is built of red brick in English garden wall bond with chamfered sandstone quoins and a slate roof with a brick stack. The building has a central stairhall and a double-depth plan, with a wing added to the right. The main front has two storeys and five bays, with the quoined central bay projecting slightly. Stone steps lead to a door consisting of six fielded panels and a fanlight, set within a keyed round-arched surround and an open-pedimented stone doorcase with engaged fluted Doric columns. All windows are 12-pane sashes, with a keyed, pedimented architrave at the first-floor centre, and eared architraves elsewhere; all have stone sills on grooved consoles. A first-floor band runs around the building. There is a moulded eaves cornice, returned at each end, and a balustraded parapet interrupted at the centre by a pediment enclosing a roundel. Front and rear end stacks mark the change in pitch of the mansard roof. The rear of the hall features a Gothick-glazed Venetian staircase window, flanked by paired 12-pane sashes set beneath segmental gauged brick arches. Two similar windows are present in the left return, lighting the attic space. The rear has a ramped-up and flattened parapet to the gable end. The wing has a two-storey, two-window front, set back from the main front. The ground floor is obscured by a lean-to conservatory. The first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes with stone sills and flat gauged brick arches. Boxed modillion eaves are present. The right return of the wing has two tripartite sashes with stone sills and cambered brick arches with rusticated stone keyblocks to the ground floor; the first-floor windows are similar to those on the front. The interior was not inspected.