Staindrop Hall

Staindrop Hall is a house dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with additions and alterations from the 18th century. The north elevation, facing the road, is rendered with painted ashlar dressings, and has roofs of synthetic stone slates and graduated Lakeland slates, with ashlar and brick chimneys. The original house was of an H-plan, with an 18th-century addition to the east and a smaller addition to the west. The north front is two and three storeys high, with nine bays, and a one-storey, three-bay addition to the right. The original three-bay section is three storeys high, with a set-back wing to the left, which has been altered to two storeys. A further two-storey, four-bay section was added to the right. The original section has two-light ground-floor windows in the outer bays, central three-light windows above, and a two-light window in the right return, all with rebated chamfered stone mullions, with label moulds over the upper-floor windows. The right wing has similar three-light windows on the upper floors. The left wing has broad glazing bars and an architraved six-pane light inserted in place of a blocked door and a twelve-pane sash above. The 18th-century addition to the left has a step up to a six-panel door with a tall three-pane overlight, flanked by an inserted sash window and a quartered round window. Sashes with glazing bars and architraves are on the first floor in the third and fourth bays. The right addition has a central sash window and a small light to the right. Continuous eaves run along the two and three-storey parts. Hipped roofs incorporate end and ridge chimneys. The south elevation, facing the garden, shows the original section with inserted ground-floor door and windows. Label moulds are over the three-light windows on the upper floors, and mullions have been removed from the projecting left wing. A symmetrical 18th-century building projects to the right, with a canted central projection and varied glazing in the original openings. The one-storey west addition has inserted garage doors to the left and tripartite sashes with glazing bars in the other bays.

The interior includes moulded plastered beams on the ground floor of the original section. A large, painted stucco coat of arms, with a scallop in each quarter, is on the ceiling above the fireplace, with a scallop corbel above it. There is also an 18th-century cupboard with patterned glazing bars and a closed-well stair in the rear wing. The 18th-century addition has a dogleg stair with a ramped grip handrail on column balusters and block tread ends. High-quality stucco ceiling decoration, including a dentilled cornice in one principal room and a medallioned cornice in another, is also present. A carved 18th-century chimney piece, originally from Gainford, has been incorporated.