Huncoat Hall And Attached Barn

Huncoat Hall and the attached barn is a late medieval or early 16th century hall house that underwent alterations in the 18th century and again in 1870-71. It is now used as a house and barn. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with quoins and features a slate roof with three chimneys. It has an H-plan layout and is two storeys high.

On the south side, there is a two-storey central range that may have originally been an open hall, with projecting gabled wings at each end. The left wing is now a barn. The left angle has a two-storey cross-gabled bay, and the right angle features a lean-to porch. Notable features on this side include a long hoodmould at the ground floor of the left wing, windows with three and four round-headed lights with hollow spandrels at the ground floor of the bay, a blocked window above, a blocked mezzanine in the central range, and a large Tudor-arched doorway to the porch, which is now partly blocked and covered by an outhouse. The right return wall has a two-storey projection that once housed a garderobe and part of a corbelled first-floor chimney. The rear, which is now the front, includes a stair turret at the angle with the barn, and the rebuilt barn wall incorporates a small window with two round-headed lights at the first floor, inscribed with "CT 1873" on the sill.

Inside, the upper end of the hall has an arched opening into the ground floor of the bay, which may have been an oriel. There are two pointed Tudor-arch doorways leading to the wing, which is said to have been the dining hall and is now a barn, and another doorway leading to the stair turret, which features part of a spiral stone staircase. The crosswing at the lower end has two similar doorways that are blocked. The blocked mezzanine in the south wall has a splayed reveal and a headstone for three rounded lights. The first floor of the bay shows evidence of a similar window and is said to have been a chapel, with a late medieval cross that was formerly on the gable now being loose. There are extensive cellars of uncertain purpose beneath the yard and field to the north of the house.

Historically, Huncoat Hall was the home of the recusant Birtwistle family from the 15th to the 18th century.