Listed Building: FORDLEY HALL (285671)

TM 46 NW MIDDLETON FORDLEY ROAD 6/76 Fordley Hall 25.10.51 (Previously listed under Middleton Moor) GV II House. Late C16; both wings extended late 1960's. L shape plan. Timber framed and plastered; roof plaintiled except for front of main wing which is of glazed pantiles. 2 storeys and attic. Main wing to east, fronting road: 5 window range, mainly C20 casements, those to the ground floor with square leaded panes; first floor with one original 10-light mullion window; doorway with mid C20 gabled porch and boarded door; internal stack. Interior with some good quality exposed timberwork; the wall posts supporting the main first floor beam in the west wing have bulbous moulded heads with scalloping across the face above and below (cf. Macheath, Middleton Moor); some ovolo-moulded beams in north wing. Listing NGR: TM4081766939