List of hall houses in England explained

List of hall houses in England is divided by the current ceremonial counties, rather than by historic counties, and listed in alphabetical order by county and then by name of the building. For Sussex, see either East Sussex or West Sussex; for Yorkshire see either East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire or West Yorkshire.

The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland, as well as northern Europe, during the Middle Ages, centring on a hall. Usually timber-framed, some high status examples were built in stone. Most, but not all, were built for domestic use.

Unaltered hall houses are almost unknown. Where they have survived, they have almost always been significantly changed and extended by successive owners over the generations. This list includes examples that have been significantly altered or added to, but that originated as hall houses or were hall houses in an early part of their history.

Bedfordshire

• Moreteyne Manor (previously Moat Farmhouse), Marston Moreteyne.^[1]

Berkshire

• Ockwells Manor, Cox Green.^[2]

Buckinghamshire

• Dorney Court, Dorney.^[3]

Cambridgeshire

• Rectory Farmhouse, Whaddon.^{[4] [5]}

Cheshire

• Bramall Hall, Bramhall.^[6]
• Hoole Hall.
• Little Moreton Hall, near Congleton.^[7]
• Willot Hall, Prestbury.^[8]

City of London

• Crosby Hall, Kensington and Chelsea, London.^[9]

Cornwall

• Cotehele, Calstock.^[10]
• Cullacott Farm, Werrington.^{[11] [12]}

Cumbria

• Smardale Hall, Smardale.^{[13] [14]}

Derbyshire

• Haddon Hall, Bakewell.^[15]
• The Old Manor, also known as Norbury Hall, Norbury.^[16]

Devon

• Old Shute House, Shute.^[17]

Dorset

• Athelhampton Hall, Athelhampton.^[18]

Durham

• Crook Hall, Durham.^[19]

East Riding of Yorkshire

• Burton Agnes Manor House, Burton Agnes.^{[20] [21]}

East Sussex

• Alfriston Clergy House, Alfriston.^[22]
• Anne of Cleves House, Lewes.^[23]
• Bridge Cottage, Uckfield.^{[24] [25] [26]}
• Stone Hill (formerly Stonehill Farmhouse), Chiddingly.^{[27] [26]}

Essex

• Horham Hall, Thaxted.^[28]
• The Monk's Barn, Newport.^[29]
• Paycocke's House, Coggeshall.^{[30] [31]}

Gloucestershire

• New Hall, Painswick.^{[32] [33]}

Greater London

• The Ancient House, Walthamstow.^{[34] [35]}

Greater Manchester

• Bedford Hall, Bedford, Leigh.^[36]

Hampshire

• Hall House, Boarhunt (dismantled in 1970; reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1981).^[37]
• Manor House Farmhouse, Farringdon.^[38]
• Medieval Merchant's House, Southampton.^[39]

Herefordshire

• The Master's House, Ledbury.^{[40] [41]}

Hertfordshire

• Place House Hall, Ware.^{[42] [43]}

Kent

• Bayleaf Farmhouse, Chiddingstone (dismantled in 1968–1969; reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1972).^[44]
• Great Dixter, Northiam.^[45] Great Dixter is a confection in three parts: the original hall house on the site dating from c. 1464–1479, another hall house brought from Benenden in Kent, and a 20th-century wing designed by Edwin Lutyens.
• Hole Cottage, near Cowden (owned by The Landmark Trust).^[46]
• Medieval house, North Cray (dismantled in 1965; reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1984).^[47]
• Medieval house, Sole Street (dismantled in 1970; reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1991 and 2016).^[48]
• The Old Bakery, Hamstreet.^{[49] [50]}
• Pattyndenne Manor, Goudhurst.^[51]
• Penshurst Place, Penshurst.^[52]
• The Plough Inn, Stalisfield.^[53]
• Viney's Cottages, Leeds.^[54]

Lancashire

• Rufford Old Hall, Rufford.^[55]

Leicestershire

• Wygston's House, Leicester.^{[56] [57]}

Lincolnshire

• Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough.^[58]

Merseyside

• Speke Hall, Speke.^[59]

Norfolk

• Bretts Manor, previously known as Wealden Hall House and the White Cottage, Wacton.^{[60] [61]}

North Yorkshire

• 1 Tanner Row, York.^[62]
• Wealden Hall, York.^[63]

Northamptonshire

• Apethorpe Palace, Apethorpe.^[64]

Northumberland

• Aydon Castle, Aydon.^[65]
• Featherstone Castle, near Haltwhistle.^[66] The Historic England listing states 'possibly an early C13 hall-house (now incorporated in west range).'

Nottinghamshire

• The Old House, Bleasby.^[67]

Oxfordshire

• Yelford Manor, Yelford.^{[68] [69]}

Rutland

• Quaintree Hall, Braunston-in-Rutland.^[70] The Historic England listing states 'The rear wing contains the remnants of an earlier timber hall: Crown post roof an unusual construction, upon base crucks, probably late C13.'

Shropshire

• Stokesay Castle, Stokesay.^[71] Stokesay Castle is a fortified manor house, with a hall and solar (c. 1260–1280) which predate the licence to crenellate of 1291.

Somerset

• Lytes Cary, near Charlton Mackrell.^[72]
• Whitestaunton Manor, Whitestaunton.^[73]

South Yorkshire

• 41-43 Church Street, Barnsley.^[74] Initially a hall house, a cross-wing was added a few years later.

Staffordshire

• 5, Brookside Road, formerly known as Wales End Farm, Barton-under-Needwood.^{[75] [76]}
• Pear Tree Farmhouse, Yoxall.^{[77] [76]}

Suffolk

• Ancient House, Clare.^{[78] [79]}
• Grundle House, Stanton.^{[80] [81]}
• Little Hall, Lavenham.^{[82] [83]}
• Ufford Hall, Fressingfield.^[84]

Surrey

• Old Surrey Hall, Dormansland^[85]

Tyne and Wear

• Washington Old Hall, Washington.^{[86] [87]}

Warwickshire

• The Cottage and Red Roof Farm, formerly known as Hall House, Sawbridge.^{[88] [89]}

West Midlands

• Bromwich Hall - The Manor House Museum, West Bromwich.^{[90] [91]}
• New Hall Manor, Sutton Coldfield.^[92]

West Sussex

NB The hall houses displayed at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum are listed under their original counties.

• Ancient Priors, Crawley.^[93]
• The Old Punch Bowl, Crawley.^[94]
• Tree House, Crawley, now Crawley Museum.^[95]
• Walderton Cottage, Walderton (dismantled in 1980; reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1982).^{[96] [97]}
• The Yeoman's House, Bignor.^[98]

West Yorkshire

• Calverley Old Hall, Leeds.^{[99] [100]}
• Shibden Hall, Shibden.^[101]

Wiltshire

• John Halle's Hall, Salisbury.^[102]
• King John's House, Tollard Royal.^[103]

Worcestershire

• Eastington Hall, Longdon.^{[104] [105] [106] [107]}
• Little Malvern Court, Little Malvern.^{[108] [109]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Moat Farmhouse, Woburn Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 9 April 2023.
2. Web site: Ockwells Manor and Wall Attached on the South East, Ockwells Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
3. Web site: Dorney Court, Court Lane. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 9 April 2023.
4. Web site: Rectory Farmhouse, 32, Meldreth Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 9 April 2023.
5. Web site: David Gecc . Whaddon Fact Sheet No. 2 – Historic Houses . 9 April 2023 . whaddon.org.
6. Web site: Bramall Hall, Bramhall Park. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
7. Lake, Jeremy; Hughes, Pat (2006) [1995], Little Moreton Hall (revised ed.), The National Trust, ISBN 978-1-84359-085-9
8. Web site: Willot Hall, Wilmslow Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
9. Web site: Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk. Historic England. 9 April 2023.
10. Web site: Cotehele. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 2 April 2023.
11. Web site: Cullacott and Attached Open Fronted Cartshed. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 9 April 2023.
12. Web site: History. cullacottholidays.co.uk. 9 April 2023.
13. Web site: Smardale Hall and Adjoining Buildings. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
14. 14713. Smardale Hall. 10 April 2023.
15. Web site: Haddon Hall. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 May 2023.
16. Web site: The Old Manor and Attached Garden Wall, Norbury Hollow. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
17. Web site: Old SHute House. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
18. Web site: Athelhampton Hall. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
19. Web site: Crook Hall, Framwellgate Waterside. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
20. Web site: Burton Agnes Manor House, Main Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
21. Web site: Burton Agnes, Manor House, Yorkshire, East Riding. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. 10 April 2023.
22. Web site: The Old Clergy House, The Tye. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
23. Web site: Anne of Cleeves' House, Southover High Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
24. Web site: Bridge Cottage. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 May 2023.
25. Web site: About Bridge Cottage. Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre. 1 May 2023.
26. Web site: Bridge Cottage - A C15th Wealden Hall House, floored over. 1 May 2023.
27. Web site: Stone Hill. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 May 2023.
28. Web site: Horham Hall. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 2 April 2023.
29. Web site: Monk's Barn, High Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
30. Web site: Paycocke's, 25, West Street. Historic England. 9 April 2023.
31. Web site: The history of Paycocke's House. National Trust. 9 April 2023.
32. Web site: New Hall, Bisley Street. Historic England. 8 April 2023.
33. Web site: New Hall, Painswick, Gloucestershire. Historic England. 8 April 2023.
34. Web site: The Ancient House, 2, 4, 6 and 8, Church Lane E17. Historic England. 9 April 2023.
35. Web site: London’s oldest home with asking rent of £2,200 let within a week. Evening Standard. 9 April 2023.
36. Web site: Bedford Hall, Hooten Lane. Historic England. 9 April 2023.
37. Web site: Hall House From Boarhunt. Weald & Downland Living Museum. 1 April 2023.
38. Web site: Manor House Farmhouse, Church Road. Historic England. 10 April 2023.
39. Web site: Medieval Merchant's House. Historic England. 10 April 2023.
40. Web site: The Master's House of St. Katherine's Hospital (Malvern Hills District Council Office), High Street. Historic England. 9 April 2023.
41. Web site: History of the Master's House. Herefordshire.gov.uk. 9 April 2023.
42. Web site: Place House, 19-22, Bluecoat Yard. Historic England. 9 April 2023.
43. Web site: Place House Hall, Ware. placehousehall.org. 9 April 2023.
44. Web site: Bayleaf Farmstead From Chiddingstone. Weald & Downland Living Museum. 1 April 2023.
45. Web site: Great Dixter, High Park. Historic England. 2 April 2023.
46. Web site: Hole Cottage, Cowden, Kent. The Landmark Trust. 1 April 2023.
47. Web site: Medieval House From North Cray. Weald & Downland Living Museum. 1 April 2023.
48. Web site: Medieval House From Sole Street. Weald & Downland Living Museum. 1 April 2023.
49. Web site: House Attached To Post Office/Six Bells Inn/The Old Bakery. Historic England. 1 April 2023.
50. Web site: A medieval Wealden Hall House from the 1400s that has been carefully carried into the 21st century. Lydia Stangroom. Country Life. 4 July 2022. 12 April 2023.
51. Web site: Pattyndenne Manor and Rear Courtyard Bedgebury Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
52. Web site: Penshurst Place. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 14 April 2023.
53. Web site: The Plough Inn, Stalisfield Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
54. Web site: Viney's Cottages. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 12 April 2023.
55. Web site: Rufford Old Hall, Liverpool Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
56. Web site: Wygston's House, 12 Applegate, Leicester, LE1 5LD. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
57. Web site: Wygston's House. The oldest house in Leicester. The Story of Leicester. 1 April 2023.
58. Web site: The Old Hall, Cobden Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
59. Web site: History of Speke Hall. National Trust. 1 April 2023.
60. Web site: Bretts Manor, The Common, Wacton, NR15 2UP. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
61. Web site: See inside this Grade II listed cottage described as one of the ‘best’ of its kind in Norfolk. Eastern Daily Press. 10 April 2023.
62. Web site: 39, North Street, 1, Tanner Row. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
63. Web site: The Wealden Hall, 49 and 51, Goodramgate. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
64. Web site: Apethorpe Palace Formerly Known as Apethorpe Hall, Apethorpe. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
65. Web site: Aydon Castle Main Buildings and Courtyard Walls. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 2 April 2023.
66. Web site: Featherstone Castle, Hall Bank. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 2 April 2023.
67. Web site: The Old House, Main Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 8 April 2023.
68. Web site: Yelford Manor. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
69. Web site: Magnificent medieval houses in Oxfordshire and Suffolk. Country Life. 3 October 2013. 10 April 2023.
70. Web site: Quaintree Hall, Cedar Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
71. Web site: Stokesay Castle, Stokesay, Craven Arms, SY7 9AH. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
72. Web site: Lytes Cary, Ilchester Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
73. Web site: Whitestaunton Manor. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
74. Web site: 41-43 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
75. Web site: 5, Brookside Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
76. Hislop . Malcolm JB . 1999 . Two medieval houses in east Staffordshire . Staffordshire Archaeological & Historical Society Transactions . 38. 32–48.
77. Web site: Pear Tree Farmhouse. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
78. Web site: The Ancient House, High Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 9 April 2023.
79. News: The Ancient House, Clare, Suffolk: History. 9 April 2023.
80. Web site: Grundle House. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 8 April 2023.
81. News: A medieval hall house. 26 April 2015. 1 May 2023. Suffolk News .
82. Web site: Little Hall, Market Place. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 8 April 2023.
83. News: Welcome to Little Hall Lavenham. 8 April 2023.
84. Web site: Ufford Hall, Laxfield Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
85. Web site: Old Surrey Hall, Hollow Lane. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 9 April 2023.
86. Web site: Washington Old Hall. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
87. Web site: History of Washington Old Hall. National Trust. 10 April 2023.
88. Web site: The Cottage and Red Roof Farm. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
89. Web site: Hall House, Sawbridge, Warwickshire. Our Warwickshire. 10 April 2023.
90. Web site: West Bromwich Manor House, Hall Green Road. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
91. News: Bromwich Hall - The Manor House Museum. 10 April 2023.
92. Web site: New Hall. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 12 April 2023.
93. Web site: The Ancient Priors (Minters Restaurant A Louis Coiffeur), 49 and 51, High Street. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
94. Web site: The Old Punchbowl, 101, High Street, Crawley, RH10 1DD. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
95. Web site: Crawley Museum. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 20 May 2023.
96. Web site: A medieval and seventeenth-century house at Walderton, West Sussex, dismantled and re-erected at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. F.G Aldsworth & R. Harris. Sussex Archaeological Collections 120, pp. 45-92. 1982. 21 May 2023.
97. Web site: House From Walderton. Weald & Downland Living Museum. 1 April 2023.
98. Web site: The Yeoman's House. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
99. Web site: Calverley Old Hall. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
100. Web site: Restoration for Yorkshire medieval manor house and its Tudor treasures. Heritage Fund. 10 April 2023.
101. Web site: Shibden Hall, Lister's Road, HX3 6XG. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
102. Web site: John Halle's Hall (Now Forming Entrance to the Odeon Cinema), New Canal. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 1 April 2023.
103. Web site: King John's House. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
104. Web site: Eastington Hall and Barn to North West. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 10 April 2023.
105. Web site: Eastington Hall, Longdon, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire: the garden terrace. RIBA. 10 April 2023.
106. Web site: Eastington Hall Estate Upton-On Severn • Worcesterhsire/Gloucestershire Border. Onthemarket.com. 10 April 2023.
107. Web site: The Tudor mansion for sale that kept the Tate’s treasures safe during the First World War. Agnes Stamp. Country Life. 24 June 2017. 10 April 2023.
108. Web site: Little Malvern Court. Official list entry. Historic England: National Heritage List for England. 29 May 2023.
109. Web site: Little Malvern (Lot 1), Malvern, Worcestershire. Rightmove. 29 May 2023.