Warren Hall

Warren Hall is a house in the Italianate style, listed Grade II. It is a symmetrical two-storey building of five bays, constructed in stucco beneath a shallow hipped slate roof, the chimney stacks of which are now missing.

The principal facade displays characteristic Italianate detailing. A wide modillion eaves cornice runs beneath the roof, with rusticated quoins and a plinth defining the angles. A moulded string course, which serves a dual function as a continuous hoodmould and sill band, runs across the facade. The ground floor windows are 12-pane hornless sashes with moulded sills and flat heads, each supported by scrolled brackets that carry the continuous hoodmould above. The upper storey windows are round-arched plain-glazed hornless sashes, each with a keystone and an individual entablature supported by pairs of scrolled brackets, with louvred shutters fitted to each.

A shallow porch projects from the centre, featuring round columns with moulded capitals supporting a wide moulded cornice that aligns with the main string course. The round arched doorway is framed by narrow mouldings and a keystone, carried on piers with moulded capitals. The door itself is half-glazed and panelled with very narrow sidelights, and is topped by a fanlight with decorative lead glazing.

The east end has a large window to each storey. The ground floor features a canted bay window containing a 12-pane sash, above which rises a segmental pediment that extends into the main string course. The upper storey has a tripartite plain-glazed sash, furnished with a bracketed hoodmould and shutters matching those on the front elevation. The west end has no openings to the lower storey; the upper storey contains a round-arched sash offset to the left, which was inserted after 1872.

The rear of the property has undergone substantial alteration since 1872. The original parallel two-storey rear range has been shortened and given a flat roof. Its west side has two windows: to the right are 2-over-4-pane sashes, whilst to the left is a 6-pane sash positioned above a 3-light plain-glazed wooden casement. The east side has an added flat-roofed lean-to against the ground floor with wooden glazing; a 4-pane window sits to its left and a doorway to its right. The upper storey contains three windows with plain-glazed sashes; the centre window has a blind round arch with keystone, whilst those flanking have hoodmoulds on scrolled brackets. To the rear, the ground floor adjoins a modern house; to the right of this is a large wooden window with a segmental head. The upper storey has an eaves stack to the left, a small-pane 2-light casement under a gablet to the centre, and a 3-light wooden casement with segmental head to the right.

The interior is notable for its carefully detailed classical panelling, which lines the central spaces and is said to have been imported from elsewhere. Inside the entrance, a short corridor with flanking reception rooms leads into a large square stair-hall. The staircase is an open-well design with paired balusters, the lower halves of which feature barley twist turning and supporting arches, with moulded handrails. The square newel posts are intricately carved with trailing vines, serpents and other ornamental motifs. The balustrading continues around the landing, the posts terminating in foliate pendant finials. An arcade runs along the south side, with round arches supported on decorative posts topped with egg-and-dart moulded capitals.

The stair-hall panelling is full-height, banded with decorative rosettes and crowned by an egg-and-dart cornice. On the north wall stands a stone Tudor-arched fireplace with foliage decoration in the spandrels, set within a wooden surround featuring rosette friezes. Above the mantelpiece, wooden panelling with recessed arches is supported on paired columns. The entrance corridor is panelled to picture rail level, with double panelled doors to the western reception room, the surround ornamented with stylised foliage and a bracketed cornice, and a single door to the eastern room framed with bead-and-reel moulding.

On the first floor, the landing retains full-height panelling, though this does not extend into the individual rooms, some of which feature moulded window surrounds and coving. A light-well rises to the ceiling.