Benarth Hall ( including balustraded terrace to SE )

Benarth Hall is a late Georgian country house probably built around 1790 for Samuel Price of Lincoln's Inn. The house and its 135-acre estate with farm were sold by his executors on 26 June 1805. The sale particulars described it as "an elegant, commodious and modern built mansion house, suitable for a large family and with every description of offices", with beautiful pleasure grounds laid out with great taste, enriched with forest trees and the choicest evergreens. The grounds also included a hot house, green house, pinery, melon pit, peachery, and ice house. In the early 19th century Benarth became a summer retreat for the connoisseur and collector Sir George Beaumont. A design by John Nash dated 1802 may relate to Benarth or its neighbouring property.

The main building is a three-storey double-pile house constructed in red brick with roughcast render and hipped slate roofs with oversailing eaves. It is flanked by single-storey double pavilions. The symmetrical seven-window south-east garden front features a central advanced bay flanked by full-height canted bay windows, all with elegant 12-pane recessed windows and 6-pane windows to the upper floor, with projecting stone cills. An open pediment in moulded timber crowns the central bay, topped with a circa 1900 flagpole and flanked by plain pilasters. A circa 1900 partly-glazed bowed colonnade with reconstituted stone Doric columns runs along the ground floor of the central bay, supporting a flat roof with balustrade and providing access via French doors to the ground and first floors.

The entrance front is near-symmetrical, with a single-storey porch of reconstituted stone dating to circa 1900. It features a moulded entablature and square opening flanked by Doric columns, with a part-glazed contemporary door within. Above this rises a large Diocletian window with tripartite glazing. The ground and first floors have 12-pane windows, while the third floor has 6-pane windows as on the garden front.

Contemporary single-storey pavilions flank either side of the main block, both pedimented and connected via two-bay single-storey linking ranges. The pavilion to the south-east projects further than that to the south-west. Behind these are further single-storey pavilions of circular plan, originally topped with lead domes and surmounting lanterns. At the time of inspection in September 1995, the dome to the south-west had collapsed and that to the north-east had partially fallen. These circular pavilions originally housed the kitchen and music room respectively, the latter described in the sale particulars as "expensively finished".

The interior contains good contemporary sunk-panelled doors and mantelpieces, along with a repositioned staircase. The interior was not fully evaluated during the survey.

A convex balustraded viewing platform of circa 1900, featuring conventional balusters and square dividing pilasters of reconstituted stone on a rubble plinth, stands opposite the garden facade to the north-east, terminating the upper garden terrace at its centre.

The building was unoccupied and in a state of disrepair at the time of survey in September 1995.