Listed Building: SIMMONDLEY HALL (1384296)

Farmhouse and outbuildings, now 2 houses. Early C17 with C20 additions and alterations. Narrow coursed millstone grit, partly rendered, and tooled ashlar with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof, stone diagonally set stacks on bases and coped gables with kneelers. PLAN: possible end baffle entry into 2-unit house with services. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Quoins. Street front has projecting 2 storey gabled ashlar porch to right with chamfered doorway and 3-light window above. Set back to left a 6-light window and beyond an 8-light window with major mullion, above a 4-light window and a 3-light window, above again to right in gable a blocked former attic window with floating cornice. All windows have chamfered mullions in chamfered reveals with Tudor hoodmoulds. Right return has rendered gable with single light and 2-light chamfered mullion window with hoods. Left return has single 5-light chamfered mullion window and adjoining doorway with Tudor hoodmould to right and a single light window to left, above a small roundel in square surround with a 5-light chamfered mullion window with Tudor hoodmould to right. Projecting gabled wing to left has 3-light chamfered mullion window with hoodmould to first floor and rendered right return has central doorway flanked by single windows with above a 3-light chamfered mullion window and diamond plaque. Rear elevation has 2-light chamfered mullion window and similar 3-light window above. INTERIOR: No.2 has king post roof with trenched purlins and small stone fireplace with stone lintel and ovolo moulding to first floor. Ground floor with plain stone fireplace. No.1, roof not inspected. First floor has evidence of earlier framed structure; tie cut away, lower portion preserved. Side purlin and tie beam to landing. Side purlin to small chamber. C18 ovolo moulded beams with "step and run out stop" to main chamber. Ground floor has flag floor to kitchen, chamfered crossbeams with step stops. Bressumer has been replaced. Principal room has stone fireplace with ovolo moulding, top renewed. Blocked doorway with timber lintel and pegholes to door surround. Window seat with rough guilloche frieze.