Shuttleworth Hall

Shuttleworth Hall is a manor house or large farmhouse, dating from the early to mid 17th century, and subsequently altered. It is now divided into two dwellings. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and a chamfered plinth, and has a stone slate roof with two ridge chimneys and two very large external chimney stacks. It is arranged in an H-plan, with a porch located within the re-entrant angle on the right side.

The main hall range is two storeys high, with wings that rise to two-and-a-half storeys and a porch. The porch, flush with the right wing, features quoins extending above ground floor level. Projecting upper storeys rise from a low moulded band, topped with gable coping and kneelers. The ground floor has a flat, four-centred arched outer opening with a moulded surround, a similar inner doorway with a studded door, and a three-light window on each floor above. All front windows have ovolo and fillet moulded mullions, and hoodmoulds, with transoms in the ground and first floor windows of the hall range and wing gables. The hall features 16-light king-mullioned windows, while the wings have 12-light windows. The wings also include three-light, flat-topped, ogee-headed attic windows. Inserted cross windows are present at ground floor in the wings, and an inserted door and a three-light first-floor window are found in the re-entrant angle of the left wing. Original windows are predominantly double-chamfered with hoodmoulds.

The return wall of the left wing has three-light windows to the front bay on each floor, and four, two, and four-light windows under a single hoodmould towards the rear. The return wall of the right wing features a wide projecting chimney bay, with four and three-light windows on each floor to the rear. There is a blocked fire window at first floor forward of the chimney stack, and another at ground floor near the corner. The right half of the rear gable of this wing projects out to form a chimney stack with blocked fire windows at ground floor and first floor. A window on each floor (three, three, and two lights) is located to the left of this feature. The rear gable of the left wing has two windows on each floor, including the attic, all of two lights except for a small single light at first floor left. The re-entrant angle of each wing has a three-light window at first floor. The rear of the hall range incorporates two doorways and two three-light mullioned windows on each floor, all insertions from the 19th century.

The interior has been altered. Principal beams remain, mostly roll-moulded with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The roof structure consists of a hall part with two bays, and wings each with three bays; it incorporates collar trusses with two pairs of windbraced purlins (some windbraces are missing). While original fireplaces may survive, their openings are now concealed.