Bagnall Hall is a Grade II listed building and is situated across
the centre of the village, opposite the Stafford Arms and was the
principal house serving the major land holding of the village. The
first reference to the occupiers of the Hall was in 1598, when John
Murrall (Moorhall) married Jane Colclough. He was a local Justice
of the Peace and was knighted in 1631 during the reign of King Charles
I. His initials "J.M." can be seen over the doorway of the
Hall. The Hearth Tax of 1666 showed the Hall as boasting 4 hearths.
John Murall's descendants lived at the Hall until 1762, when a William Murhall died, leaving no male successor.
The hall is coursed and dressed stone of ashlar quality; stone end stacks. 2 storey, 5 window front: glazing bar sashes of unusual diagonal bar pattern, raised surround corbelled to the left. The Hall was remodelled in the 18th century into a fine double pile with hipped roof. In the 19th Century a canted bay was added to the south.
In the
1851 census Enoch Myatt is listed as Head of Bagnall Hall. The Myatt
family had left the Hall by the census of 1881, and it was now occupied
by Hannah Keats, aged 43. In 1892 her daughter Ann left Bagnall
Hall to become the licensee of The Stafford Arms.
Drystone
walling predominates in the local area, but only Bagnall Hall has
a more sophisticated style of walling complete with stone gate piers,
a distinction which underlines the Hall's status as the one gentry
house in the village.