Kiplin Hall

Kiplin Hall is a country house built in 1625 for Lord Baltimore, the founder of Maryland. A library was added in 1818 by P. F. Robinson, and the building was re-faced and had its interior redone in 1879 by W. E. Nesfield. The house is constructed of red brick with diapering in English bond and features stone dressings, topped with a Westmorland slate roof. It has a rectangular, nearly square plan, with each side featuring a central square projecting tower flanked by slightly lower gables. The structure has three storeys, with the towers consisting of two bays and gabled blocks on either side containing three bays.

The main front features a central round-headed panelled door, flanked by pairs of attached Tuscan columns on plinths, with a frieze and cornice above. Above the doorway is a stone coat of arms. The windows throughout are cross-windows with ovolo-section mullions. The tower has two windows on the first and second floors, both with continuous hoodmoulds, and above is a stone band and parapet with a small chamfered window. The roof features ashlar coping and a leaded ogee dome with ball finials. The gabled blocks have windows on the second floor with hoodmoulds and small chamfered one-light windows on either side of the central tower. The gables have raised verges, ashlar coping, and finials, with four brick stacks in the valley of the two-span roof. Other facades are similar in design.

The library, which projects on the left, is one storey high and has five bays with blind pointed-arch windows and hoodmoulds, separated by buttresses. It features a stone band and parapet, with a roof dormer in the central bay, ashlar coping, a finial, and a ridge stack.

Inside, the entrance hall is panelled in oak and has a geometrically patterned ceiling. The south-west drawing room contains a 17th-century chimneypiece and overmantel. The transverse long gallery on the second floor has a fireplace and decoration from around 1730. The main open-well staircase, also from around 1730, is cantilevered with turned balusters and a later handrail. Other interior features date from the 18th century.