Cowling Hall And Wing

Cowling Hall and Wing are two houses situated in Burrill with Cowling. The Hall has elements dating back to the 12th century, with significant rebuilding in the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Wing was constructed in the 12th and 17th centuries. The Hall is largely brick rendered with rubblestone and ashlar, while the Wing incorporates timber framing. Both buildings are roofed with pantiles and stone slates.

The Hall itself is two storeys, originally five bays, with a three-storey, single-bay block projecting to the left. The main range has a plinth, stone quoins, and a central bay which projects forward, also with stone quoins. A prominent Doric stone surround with rusticated pilasters on plinths, a frieze with triglyphs, and a cornice tops the eight-panel entrance door. A first-floor window above the door rises from the cornice, also with a stone surround featuring consoles, a frieze, and a triangular pediment. The flanking bays on either side of the entrance feature sashes with double keystones and stone cills. The left block has C20 four-pane sashes to the ground floor and a tripartite sash with glazing bars and a stone cill to the first and second floors. A stone band and parapet run along the left side of this section, which may incorporate part of an earlier pele tower. The roof is pantiled, hipped to the left, with shaped kneelers, and has stone coping on the right. The garden front is similar, but without the narrow sashes in the central bay, with blocked mullioned cellar windows at plinth level and a small six-pane window above the first floor in each side bay, one of them blind.

Inside the Hall, the main staircase features balusters alternating between fluted column-on-vase and barleysugar-on-vase designs. The earlier bay contains a dog-leg back staircase with splat balusters. Remnants of early 18th-century panelling are visible in the Hall.

The Wing to the west of the Hall is two storeys and six bays, divided into a 12th-century section attached to the Hall and a 17th-century half. A board door is set within a pointed-arch surround with moulded jambs and an arched cusped light with a transom above. The other windows are modern sixteen-pane sashes. The first floor of the wing features earlier quoined surrounds to bays 1, 2, and 6, with a sundial to the left. The left gable end has a three-light stone mullioned window with a cornice dripmould supported on flattened corbels. The interior of the Wing features a half-timbered wall to the right of the arched doorway and pieces of 17th-century plasterwork in a south bedroom. Roof bosses depicting a rose and a head of James I are found in other bedrooms.