Sockburn Hall

Sockburn Hall is a country house dated 1834, possibly designed by Sir Edward Blackett for his younger brother Henry Collingwood Blackett. The building is constructed of ashlar sandstone and features graduated stone-tiled roofs with ashlar chimney stacks. It has a square main block with two parallel wings on the left side and is designed in the Jacobean style.

The house is two storeys high, plus attics, and has a symmetrical three-bay entrance front. The projecting outer bays have shaped gables, and the central entrance features a four-centred arch leading to a set-back door flanked by three-pane sidelights. Above the entrance, the Blackett arms are displayed along with dated scrolls in the spandrels. The windows are ovolo-moulded, with mullioned and transomed designs in double-chamfered surrounds. A continuous hoodmould on the ground floor steps up over the four-light windows in the outer bays and the central feature. The first floor has three-light windows under dripmoulds in the outer bays, while small two-light mullioned windows are found in the gables. A pierced parapet is located above the central bay, and there is a small central dormer with a shaped gable. The steeply-pitched two-span roof features shaped gables on the left return, with transverse chimneys at the left end and two ridge chimneys, each with three conjoined octagonal stacks.

The left return includes a two-storey bay and two parallel single-storey wings, with the front wing featuring a two-panel door, two four-light windows, a steeply-pitched roof, and a large two-stage chimney with four conjoined stacks on the ridge. The three-bay right return has projecting square two-storey outer bays with five-light windows and pierced parapets under shaped gables that contain two-light attic windows. The central first-floor window is three-light, with a continuous hoodmould stepping up over the ground-floor windows and a parapet above a continuous string. The rear of the house has similar three-bay features.

While the interior has not been seen, it is noted to contain Jacobean-style fittings, with one room reportedly panelled and featuring dismantled 15th to 18th-century dower chests.