Stone Hall

This is a house, now operating as a hotel, dating from the 18th century and later. It is constructed of painted rubble stone with slate roofs, hipped at an angle. The main front has two storeys and four bays. A double-fronted section on the left is flanked by red brick chimneys, with a matching single bay to the right under a hipped roof. The left section features three broad, hornless, 12-pane sash windows on each floor, with timber lintels. A door is centrally positioned between the two ground-floor windows, set within an early 19th-century, columned porch. The porch features two Roman Doric columns and half-column responds, topped with a moulded cornice. Later stucco infill panels sit on either side of the porch, each containing a small, triangular-headed light. The door within has two flush panels below and 20th-century leaded glazing above. A sundial, dated 1704 and bearing the initials “W & E F,” is set into the left end wall. Two 20th-century windows occupy the ground floor, and a single four-pane horned sash is positioned on the first floor. A wing projecting at right angles has an end stack and a two-storey canted bay window; the ground floor of this wing is windowless. The 19th-century section to the left has two large, four-pane horned sash windows with an end stack. A later addition to the left features two plate glass sash windows.

The rear of the house exhibits two gables marking the wings, separated by a narrow passage, with a small gable behind the main range indicating the staircase. The right side has a small gabled dormer incorporating a four-pane sash. Below this are three narrow first-floor 12-pane sashes over a ground floor pair of 9-pane sashes, and two further 12-pane sashes. An added enclosed porch is present on the right side, featuring an 8-pane window above and a tiny first-floor window to the far right. An end wall stack is also present. A short, two-storey lower addition with a single 12-pane window above a four-pane square window and a door, all with stone voussoirs, is set into the end wall. A paired door and a matching square window are set within a single-storey section extending beyond this.

The interior was not inspected, but the square front entrance hall is said to contain fielded panelling and a fireplace with a pulvinated frieze. A central timber column is present, along with fielded panelled shutters to the window to the left of the door. Two arches lead to the rear, featuring late 18th or early 19th century undercut mouldings, one to a dog-leg staircase with dado panelling, turned balusters, a thick moulded ramped rail and thin column newels. A room to the left incorporates beams encased in plaster, possibly from the earlier 20th century, and earlier 19th-century panelled shutters. A ground-floor room in the rear wing displays heavy beams, squared joists, and a stone spiral staircase at the far end.