Extwistle Hall And Attached Garden Wall At Sd 875 338

Extwistle Hall, now a farmhouse, is a gentry hall-house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It has undergone alterations, partial destruction, and remodeling in the late 19th century. The building features coursed squared sandstone and coursed sandstone rubble, with quoins and stone slate roofs at various levels, some adorned with gable copings and ball finials. The irregular plan includes ranges on three sides of a small courtyard, with the fourth side enclosed by a high wall. The hall range is on the south side, comprising three high storeys with a first-floor hall raised over a service basement, likely a 17th-century rebuild of a 16th-century original. At the east end, there is a low two-storey crosswing, probably from the 16th century, and attached to its north-east corner is another low two-storey range, which may have served as lodgings. The west end features a projecting stair wing of four storeys, which is a remodeled remnant of a formerly much larger crosswing, likely from the later 17th century. Notable external features include a hall window with 15 + 15 lights, a king mullion, two transoms, and ogee-moulded mullions, as well as a 16th-century window with three round-headed lights and chamfered flush mullions at the ground floor of the rear hall range. Inside, the east wing contains two king-post roof trusses, one of which is open. The hall range features a lofty hall, now partitioned, with a blocked, moulded arched fireplace and remnants of moulded plaster decoration, including geometric patterns on the ceiling, a vine frieze, and a foliated overmantel inscribed with "CRAS NESCIO CUIUS." The hall was home to the gentry family of Parker from the mid-16th century.