Burn Hall

Burn Hall is a country house built between 1821 and 1834 by architect Ignatius Bonomi for B. J. Salvin, constructed by Moody of Ushaw. The house is made of sandstone ashlar with a graduated Lakeland slate roof, while the rear range is rendered. It features an irregular plan with a symmetrical front range that has two storeys and attics, comprising 11 bays. The main elevation displays channelled rustication and includes a giant tetrastyle unfluted Ionic porte-cochere in the central three bays, which contains a one-storey, one-bay fluted Ionic porch and flanking sash windows. The entrance features a six-panel round-headed door set in a rusticated hollow reveal. The sashes above and in the remaining bays have glazing bars, some of which have been altered, along with aprons and plain reveals. The ground floor end bays have blocked lunettes with scrolled keystones and foliage-carved spandrels. The outer bays project slightly and are flanked by wide pilasters next to the windows. A first-floor string course, a top entablature, and a balustraded roof parapet are present over the windows. The mansard roof has square-headed attic windows that are almost concealed, and tall ashlar chimneys with plinths and cornices. There is also a two-storey domestic wing at the rear.

Inside, the house features an imperial staircase with a wreathed handrail and a double curtail on the first central flight, along with a Gothic cast iron balustrade. The rear ground floor passage has round-headed niches with enriched lugged mouldings. The reception room to the right of the entrance hall includes a panelled dado and a rich rococo stucco ceiling decorated with fruit and flower motifs. The hall has a modillioned cornice, and other rooms contain rich stucco cornices.

A 20th-century three-storey extension at the right rear is not of interest.