Ethel Williams Hall (formerly known as the Northern Counties Orphanage)

Ethel Williams Hall, formerly known as the Northern Counties Orphanage, is a vicarage and orphanage built around 1734 for C. Hayton, with an entrance hall and dining room added around 1757. The building features coursed irregularly-squared sandstone and a Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable coping on curved kneelers at the rear, and renewed kneelers at the front. It has an ashlar front and brick rear chimneys, and is two storeys tall with attics and five windows. The fourth bay contains a renewed door with an overlight set in a flat stone surround. The windows are plain narrow sashes in wide boxes, with flat stone lintels and sills. There are two later hipped dormers with glazing bars in the double-span roof.

Inside, there is a panelled room at the front left featuring a plain, bracketed chimney piece, although the ceiling has been concealed by an inserted ceiling. The door to the rear room has a lugged pedimented architrave, and there is a partly-replaced ramped handrail on the staircase. Some two-panelled cupboard doors and internal shutters remain.