A GRADE II-listed hall used as a hotel and micro brewery wants to boost its operations.

Pinchinthorpe Hall is subject to a plan to extend it and create a tea room, larger letting area and conference facilities.

It has collected support from Guisborough Parish Council, which sees the plan as an asset to the area.

The two-and-a-half-storey hall dates back to the 17th Century. It is within a moat and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Within the North York Moors National Park, the plan has not attracted comment from English Heritage.

But park planners are against it, citing poor design and scale, which they say would detract from the hall.

Now the applicant has called for the plan to be deferred, to allow major changes in a revised plans.

As a result, a decision on the plan and a linked one for listed building consent were deferred until next month.