Halls

Frederick Thomas Pilkington, 1860, made considerable alterations

and additions including refronting in sturdy Romanesque style,

to late 18th century farmhouse. 2-storey asymmetrical. Stugged

ashlar to S and W elevations with bull-faced, originally

detailed dressings; squared and snecked rubble of earlier house remaining at rear and to E, with ashlar margins.

Battered base course.

S ELEVATION: Pilkington addition to left. Advanced gable with

canted window at ground with shouldered jambs and quasi-column

stone mullions with foliate capitals. 1st floor bipartite with

slender column mullion with capital as above. Squat sturdy column bearing piend-roofed porch set in re-entrant angle, with foliate

capital and pointed archways to S and E. 3 recessed bays; 1st

floor bipartite at right, with cill cut to accommodate porch and

column mullion as above. 2 bays to right, of former house with

mannered jambs. 3 1st floor windows to right raised by

Pilkington, breaking eaves in swept, continuous shallow

dormerhead. Original door at centre blocked as windows. Slightly recessed lean-to out-building to outer right, given piended

end at S.

W ELEVATION: advanced chamfered gabled bay to left with

raised panel at centre, to full width under eaves level;

column mullion bipartite at ground with capital and lugged

lights to 1st floor bipartite. Re-entrant angle filled at

ground with small piend roofed extension with narrow windows

to W and on S return. 1st floor window above breaking eaves in half-piended gabled dormerhead. Advanced stack to blank right

bays, battered above eaves with coping and blind arcade.

Blank gable of original house of E, with lean-to out-building;

door on N return with DAIRY, painted on lintel; return (rear)

elevation with stair window of earlier house, and shallow

lean-to porch at ground. Pilkington addition slightly advanced

to outer and out-building adjoined at ground. Large paned

astragalled sash and case windows at ground, smaller at 1st.

Grey slates. Coped stone gable end stacks, 1 at ridge. Zig-zag chamfering to arrises of kingposts in gable heads, giving

shaved barley sugar effect; scalloped barge-boarding most

elaborate to outer right single storey outbuilding at S.

INTERIOR: stained pine woodwork of 1860, barley sugar balustrade

to dog leg stair and acorn finials; scalloped chamfering to door surrounds and panelled doors. Some decorative plasterwork.

Winding stone stair with cast-iron balustrade, retained from

earlier house.

Boundary walls; rubble boundary walls and gatepiers.