The Hall Farm

The Hall Farm is a Grade II* listed building constructed from local rubble stonework, which is rendered and colourwashed on the front and ends, though the front of the gabled porch has had this removed. The building features a slate roof and consists of a two-storey, three-bay main block oriented east-west, with a rear wing to the west and lean-to additions at the back and in the re-entrant angle. It has two and three-light timber windows with pointed heads, including a 16th to 17th century two-light window at the upper part of the stair on the east end, which has hollow chamfered Elizabethan arched heads, triangular spandrels, and a hood with square label stops. There is a similar single-light window head on the east face of the upper floor of the storeyed porch. The entrance is through a part-glazed door located under a lean-to pent roof to the west of the porch. The rear and rear wing feature various windows, and there are three tall stone stacks.

At the eastern end of the building, there was originally a substantial tower-house that has been largely demolished. Below this, there is a stone-vaulted chamber, possibly a wine cellar from the 17th or 18th century, which is believed to have a tunnel leading to Margam Abbey. The original tower has thick battered walls with blocked openings and likely includes a mural stair on the east gable end of the house.

Inside, the front entrance leads to a stair hall that features a moulded cornice and architraved doorcases, along with a fine dog-leg stair that has shaped bracketed treads and a wreathed handrail. There is a stone pointed arch at the rear. A passage at the rear side of the axial stack, which is outside the original structure, leads to the dining room in the central bay. This room has reeded moulded architraves and fielded panelling on the end wall, which extends around the deep alcove in the former porch. The living room in the eastern bay features a Sutton stone splayed two-centred chamfered arch opening to a straight flight stone stair beside the stack, which may have originally served the tower-house. The kitchen is located in the rear wing.