Guyzance Hall And East Wing Cottage

Guyzance Hall and East Wing Cottage is a country house, originally a c.1800 Barnhill farmhouse, with substantial alterations in 1894 by W.H. Knowles for J.D. Milburn, and a tower added around 1920.

The house is constructed of squared stone, with squared rubble in the north-west wing, and snecked stone for the ballroom extension. The roofs are of graduated Lakeland slate, with red clay tiles on the ballroom range and flat roofs (not visible) on the tower and ballroom extension. The building follows an irregular L-plan and features late 19th and early 20th century neo-Tudor style architecture.

The south elevation is divided into the main house (left) and the ballroom range (right). The original farmhouse is on the left, with two floors and three bays, featuring an inserted cross window in the former central doorway and flanking full-height canted bays, topped with an embattled parapet. The central tower is three and four storeys high, with a projecting bay containing coffered double doors set within a moulded four-centred arch, surmounted by a canted oriel. A sundial featuring the initials "L M" is positioned below a carved cornice. The tower has transomed windows to its returns, and lower, mullioned and mullioned-and-transomed windows with embattled parapets. The right part of the south elevation is two storeys high with two bays, incorporating a timber-framed first floor with pebbledashed infill and gablets over the windows. All windows are leaded casements. The chimneys have multiple octagonal shafts and moulded cornices. The single-storey ballroom range to the right has a front extension with a half-glazed door flanked by two-light windows. To the right is the East Wing Cottage, set behind an outbuilding range, with early 20th-century casements on its return. The west front (entrance front) has a projecting porch with an Ionic screen, a transomed first-floor window bearing the date '1894' in a blind upper light, and a shaped gable, along with various sash windows.

Inside, the tower contains an open-well staircase. The dining room incorporates re-used 18th-century pine panelling from North Seaton Hall (now demolished), including fluted Corinthian pilasters flanking the fireplace and a decorative cornice. The ballroom features a coffered segmental ceiling, a minstrel's gallery supported on Ionic columns, and a central arcade.