Old Hall Farmhouse

A 2½-storey house of brick with slate roof and brick stack R of centre. It comprises a S-facing main range with cross wing on the R (the rebuilt original house), which has a coped gable. The 3-window main range, incorporating a lower gabled bay on the L side in imitation of a cross wing and also with a coped gable, has cross windows in earlier segmental-headed openings. The R-hand window in the lower storey was originally a doorway, the main entrance to the C17 house. The cross wing on the R has similar windows and a blocked attic window.

In the L gable end is a 2-light window in the lower storey and 2 similar windows in the upper storey. The rear has a C19 inserted doorway with boarded door, and 2-light window to its R. In the upper storey is a 2-light window on the L side in a former blocked doorway, and inserted casement window in the centre.

The R side wall of the cross wing has three 2-light windows and a gabled porch on the R side, added in 1992. In the upper storey is a central casement and 2-light window on the R side. Further R is the slightly lower rear wing, also of brick with slate roof. It has two 2-light casement windows in the lower storey, and two 2-light and a 1-light casement window in the upper storey. At the end is a 1-storey dairy and cheese room at R angles, which has three 2-light windows. The rear (W) side of the rear wing has 2-light and 1-light windows, and a gabled projection at the L end added in 1992.

The house retains a lobby-entry plan with back-to-back fireplaces (the details now altered), although the C17 entrance has now been blocked. From this entrance double panelled doors with glazing bars (the glass has been removed) lead L into the former C17 hall. This has 2 ovolo-moulded cross beams. The 2-unit cross wing on the R of the entrance has plainer chamfered beams and chamfered joists to the rear room. Behind the fireplaces is a reset dog-leg stair, which has turned balusters and square newel.

In the cross wing evidence of painting on the original trusses was revealed during restoration work.