Dissington Hall

Country house, built in 1794 by William Newton for Edward Collingwood. The main block is constructed of ashlar with a Lakeland slate roof, and is accompanied by two lower service wings to the rear, forming a U-plan. The main block is three storeys high with seven bays, featuring a prominent three-storey canted bay in the centre. It has 12-pane sash windows, a plinth, a ground floor sill band, a string course above the ground floor, and a dentil cornice, topped with a blocking course likely added slightly later. The hipped roof has two tall chimney stacks with modillion cornices.

The returns on either side of the main block match the detailing of the principal façade. A Greek-style porch, constructed around 1820, fronts a doorway on the right return, where it joins the rear wing. The east wing features 12-pane sash windows, while the west wing incorporates a Venetian window with a Diocletian window above. A large Venetian stair window is located at the rear.

Inside, the staircase hall features a screen with two Ionic columns in antis on the ground floor and Corinthian columns on the first floor, along with an imperial staircase with iron stick balusters and an Adam-style Venetian window. The garden room, situated behind the bay window, is octagonal and features a frieze of triglyphs and metopes depicting achievements of arms, guttae panels in the cornice, and a grey marble fireplace with Ionic columns and a relief head in the frieze. The dining room has a white marble fireplace with a palmette frieze and detached terms, each depicting a lion emerging from acanthus leaves growing from a large lion’s foot, and a palmette frieze. The library similarly features a white marble fireplace, its frieze carved with a cornucopia and Pheobus in his chariot, along with flower vases on the jambs. Throughout the house are good original doors and doorcases with fluted friezes, paterae, and cornices, retaining original door furniture.

Architect's plans and drawings are preserved within the house.