Dunkenhalgh Hotel

Dunkenhalgh Hotel is a large house that was the seat of the Petre family. It was built mainly in the 19th century but incorporates parts of a house first constructed by Judge Thomas Walmsley around 1600. The building now serves as a hotel. It is primarily made of coursed sandstone rubble, with some areas rendered, and features an ashlar facade. The roofs are a mix of slate and some stone slate, with various clustered chimneys and a glazed circular lantern. The hotel has a compound T-shaped plan, formed by additions to part of the 17th-century house.

The structure is two storeys tall and designed in a castellated Tudor style. The symmetrical embattled five-bay central range includes an embattled single-storey porch and cross windows, flanked by higher embattled crosswings that project slightly and have different window styles. The battlements of the right wing extend around the five-bay west front, which features an embattled ground floor portal. The corners of this portal are accentuated by very high octagonal turrets with embattled caps. Between these turrets, the parapet is raised and displays a coat of arms with the motto "SANS DIEU RIEN," along with cross windows on both floors.

The rear of the building is very irregular but includes part of the altered 17th-century range, along with an attached service wing from the 18th century that has an arcaded ground floor. Inside, there is some ex situ panelling featuring a very elaborate early 17th-century oak overmantel inscribed with "TW" and "AW," believed to have come from Hacking Hall. The interior also showcases various early 19th-century plaster mouldings, including friezes with oak leaves, and decorations in one room that incorporate 17th and 18th-century portraits of members of the Walmsley family. Additionally, there is a series of 17th-century roof trusses with collars and trenched purlins.