Ruffside Hall

Ruffside Hall is a house that may date back to the 17th century, with additions and alterations made in the 19th century. The building is constructed from thinly-rendered sandstone and millstone grit rubble, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings, while the 19th-century additions are made of coursed squared sandstone. The roofs are covered with stone flags and graduated Lakeland slate, and there are stone chimneys.

The house is arranged in a U-plan with rear wings. The original structure has two storeys and five irregular bays, with the two left bays being wider. The right addition has two higher storeys and two windows. The original part includes a gabled open stone porch in the third bay, which has an inner partly-glazed six-panel door flanked by tapered half-columns supporting a flat stone lintel. The windows on the ground floor are 12-pane sashes, set beneath tooled flat stone lintels. The right addition features 16-pane sashes with flat stone lintels, projecting stone sills, and alternate-block jambs, along with a wide first-floor band. The roof is hipped on the right and has three tall square stone ridge stacks, with the left stack tapered and two slates set obliquely over the right chimney.

On the left return, there are two storeys and eight bays, with a blocked elliptical arch in the second bay and 12-pane sashes with a first-floor sill band. The right return has two-storey end bays that flank a one-storey conservatory under a low-pitched hipped roof. At the rear, there is a two-storey stair wing with a low one-storey outshut.

Inside, the older part of the house features walls that are about one metre thick, most windows have shutters, and there is a 19th-century staircase. Additionally, there are two open arches in the wall to the right of the entrance passage.