Ramside Hall

Ramside Hall is a house, now a hotel, dating to circa 1820 and built for the Pemberton family. It incorporates an earlier house within its structure. The exterior is rendered with a pebbledash finish, with brick visible on the parapets, and features ashlar dressings. The roof is not visible. The architecture is in the Gothic style.

The main block is two storeys high and five bays wide, with a single-storey, one-bay extension to the right and left. Behind this are set-back two-storey, five-bay left and three-storey, one-bay right wings. A central, two-storey, three-bay half-octagonal projection has four octagonal pilasters and a battlemented parapet. Three wide, Tudor-arched openings contain double doors with side and overlights. Similar Tudor-arched heads frame 12-pane sashes in the returns and 16-pane sashes over the doors, and all sashes have Tudor-arched top lights. Similar glazing is found in tripartite ground-floor sashes, a 12-pane first-floor sash in the first bay, and a three-light window at the top of the right extension. Square towers are located at the left and right ends; the left tower is blank. The towers have flat stone copings and a corbelled parapet. Plain battlements are situated over the low right extension. The set-back left wing is mostly obscured by the additions to the front, but the corbelled parapet of a round rear tower can be seen.

The rear elevation is two storeys high with ten bays, and presents a more regular style, featuring a square left corner tower and round towers projecting from the fifth bay and the right end bay. A dripmould sits above a Tudor-arched door in the central tower, with a blind cross arrow slit flanked by sashes. A plainer, half-glazed door of similar shape is located in the right end bay. Sashes are present in a similar style to those on the front, aside from two French windows to the left of the centre. A lower, embattled projection on the left obscures part of the left tower and is hidden by a conservatory added circa 1980. A circa 1920 conservatory is located in front of the five right bays.

The interior reveals thicker walls and lower ceilings in the right bay, suggesting an earlier three-storey house. A rear wall measuring approximately 6.1 metres thick is present, likely a former chimney. On the left wall of this bay is a dripmould over a Tudor-arched door with a panelled soffit, flanked by narrow Gothic lights (probably a side entrance to the early 19th century house). A dentilled stucco ceiling cornice is located in a small square hall that this door previously accessed. The main entrance leads to a full-height open hall with a curved staircase on the left, leading to a three-sided gallery. The ceiling has been removed to expose a double-ridge king-post roof dating to the 19th century. Six-panel doors are present, some with panelled reveals, in fluted architraves with corner paterae.