Knarsdale Hall Farmhouse

Knarsdale Hall Farmhouse is a manor house dating to the 17th century, with extensions built in the later 17th century and now partially used as farm buildings. The structure is of rubble construction with stone dressings, and has a roof partly of stone slate and partly of 20th-century tile. The main block is two storeys and five bays, extended to the north by a two-bay addition with a contemporary outshut. The original block has an inserted boarded door in the second bay, with tooled and margined jambs, and an inserted pitching door above. The extension features a renewed door in an eared architrave. There are two-light chamfered mullioned windows with moulded dripstones; the ground floor window in the third bay has lost its mullion. Stone stacks are located on the ridge and right gable. The right return shows a small, blocked attic window in a chamfered surround, and a section of the outshut with an 18th-century flat-faced two-light mullioned window and a later 19th-century sash window above. The rear elevation of the outshut is one-and-a-half storeys high and features a boarded door with alternating tooled and margined jambs, a flat-faced two-light mullioned window to the right, and a two-light chamfered mullioned window above. A wall of the original block has a two-light chamfered mullioned window, and a small window with a chamfered surround. A brick lean-to is not of significant interest. The interior of the house has been much altered. The hall occupies a medieval site, originally a fortified mound, and was once the seat of the Pratt family, who forfeited it to the Crown during the reign of Edward I. It subsequently passed to the Swinburns.