Dodington Hall

Dodington Hall is a manor house dating from the 15th century, which was enlarged and had its windows altered in 1581. There were minor changes made to the service end in the mid-18th century, and the service end to the left of the porch was rebuilt in the late 19th century. The left side of the porch is constructed of red sandstone random rubble with a tile roof, while the earlier building on the right is rendered with a slate roof, featuring coped verges, brick stacks, and a large external stepped stone stack on the right return of the parlour, along with a tall stone stack rising from the eaves to the left of the porch.

The layout includes a screens passage with a two-storey porch, and an open hall that is concealed on the facade by a two-bay parlour wing. A brewhouse is set back at the west end, and there is a service wing to the east of the cross passage. The building is two and a half and two storeys high, with a facade comprising 1:2:1:1:2:1 bays. It features ovolo moulded mullions and hoodmoulds. The three-bay service end has a gabled end bay with a small opening in the apex and two gabled dormers to the right flanking the stack. The first floor has three-light casements, while the ground floor includes two four-light and one three-light casement. The gabled two-storey porch has a two-light casement and a moulded arched entrance, with a 19th-century inner door that is partly glazed. The upper floor has exposed rafters and a small window to the right of the hall. The projecting parlour wing has a three-light casement on the left and a four-light mullioned and transomed window in the gabled crossing on the right, with two four-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor and small windows in the inner corner of the long brewhouse wing. The hall is lit from the rear elevation.

The interior, which has not been viewed, is known to contain a magnificent 15th-century arch-braced roof with wavy collars and cusped cross wind braces. There is a carved stone overmantel with supporters dated 1581, a coeval reconstructed oriel in the dining room featuring moulded rafters, a plaster frieze, and an 18th-century fireplace. Additionally, the mechanism of a water-driven spit is said to survive in the cellar below the kitchen, along with heraldic glass from around 1485 in the parlour wing.