Toft Hill Hall

Toft Hill Hall is a house built in the early 18th century, with alterations from the late 18th century and around 1900, as well as 20th-century additions. The exterior features pebble-dashed render on sandstone rubble, with ashlar dressings, and a roof covered in graduated Lakeland slates, while the rear slope is finished with dark grey asbestos tiles. The building is 2 and a half storeys high, with three bays, and has a one-storey, one-bay left wing that projects forward.

The central entrance consists of a five-panel door set within a slightly chamfered plain stone surround. A deep porch with solid sides is supported by stop-chamfered square piers and features a moulded hood. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, arranged in tripartite form in the outer bays. The ground-floor left window has been replaced with a square bay from around 1900, and all windows have flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills. There are three square blind attic windows that have trompe l'oeil wide glazing bars. The roof is topped with renewed corniced end chimneys on rendered plinths.

The left wing contains a 9-pane fixed light window in a tooled chamfered square surround, with the central mullion removed, and there is a similar surround for a 12-pane trompe l'oeil window in the gable peak. The left return features 20th-century additions, while the right return has a two-light stone-mullioned window in the gable peak, with a flat-fronted mullion. At the rear, there is a gabled stair wing and a one-storey pent outshut, with all gable copings resting on moulded kneelers.

Inside, the ground-floor left room has a panelled wall with a cupboard on the left and a communicating door on the right, both set in keyed pilastered surrounds. The cupboard features a double shell ceiling. The left room on the first floor is entirely panelled, and there is one bolection-moulded stone chimney piece in the right first-floor room. The wide staircase has a balustrade from around 1900, complete with a wreath and curtail.