Little Danby Hall

Little Danby Hall is a farmhouse with stables, dating from the 17th century and significantly altered in the 18th, 19th centuries, and again in 1925 by the architect Philip Tilden. The building is constructed of red brick with roofs of Welsh slate, stone slate, and pantile, and now incorporates two flats within part of the stable block.

The main house consists of three distinct blocks. The left block is from the 19th century, a two-storey, two-bay structure with Flemish bond brickwork, sash windows with glazing bars, and flat brick arches. The central block, set back, is from the 18th century and also two storeys and two bays. A central 20th-century glazed door is framed by a stone architrave featuring Roman Doric pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. Sashes with glazing bars are on either side of the door, and above, also with flat brick arches. A pediment above contains a stone coat of arms within its tympanum. The right block, also 19th-century, is two storeys and two bays; the left bay features a 20th-century two-storey canted bay window with sashes, and the right bay has two sashes with glazing bars and flat brick arches. A stone cornice runs over all three blocks, and the roof is covered in Welsh slate with ashlar coping. Brick end stacks and two ridge stacks are present.

An adjoining wing to the right of the main house dates to the 17th century. This is two storeys and five bays, with the right-hand bay slightly set back. Boarded doors are found in bays two and four, with quoined stone surrounds and lintels incorporating keystones. An eight-pane side-sliding sash window is to the right of the door in bay four. The first floor has 4-light, leaded casements in each of the five bays. Dentilled brick eaves are present, and two rows of stone slates are at the base of the pantile roof; a ridge stack is also visible here.

The stable block, designed by Philip Tilden in 1925, sits to the far right. A front block adjoining the 17th-century wing of the house is single-storey and four bays, with 2-light, leaded casements in chamfered stone surrounds with keystones. It has rows of stone slates at the base of the pantile roof, shaped kneelers, and ashlar coping, along with four roof louvres. A screen wall connects the two parallel stable blocks and faces the road; it has a double-boarded door with a segmental brick arch set under a Dutch gable with stone coping and acorn finial, and a square boarded opening with a corbelled cill in each gable of the stable blocks. Chamfered-rusticated brick gate piers with cornices stand to the north of the stable block. At the rear of the main house, a reset quoined stone door surround with a keyed lintel bears the inscription 'T.M. 1756'.