Scale Hall

Scale Hall is a small manor house, dating to circa 1700, and altered in the 20th century. It now operates as a restaurant and country club. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof, forming an L-shape with a three-unit front range and a rear wing. The front range is two storeys and five bays, symmetrical, with raised quoins and bands above the windows on both floors. The central doorway is accessed by four steps and features a shouldered architrave with a pulvinated frieze, a broken pediment, and a ten-panel door with an overlight. All windows have moulded architraves; the ground-floor windows to the right are taller, with the ground-floor sashes having eight large panes and those above with eighteen small panes. The roof has two small skylights in each slope, gable copings, and three chimneys – two on the front gable and one rising from the rear wall. The rear wing, located at the south end, includes a large single-storey lean-to in the angle. The first floor of the front range has two windows matching those at the front, and a smaller window between them. A doorway is located at the junction of the side wall of the lean-to, along with a small square window in each wall. The re-entrant angle of the wing retains the remains of former windows aligned vertically near the junction. The rear gable of the wing has staggered stair windows on four levels, all recessed cross-windows except the third, which is a sash, and a two-light mullioned attic window. A chimney runs along the wing's ridge.

The interior retains some original features, notably a fully panelled parlour with raised and fielded panels, pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, a moulded cornice, a cross-corner fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround, and a secret cupboard within the panelling. The former kitchen at the same end has three large roughly-shaped stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and a large segmental-arched stone inglenook fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround. The staircase in the wing is doglegged, with a closed string, slim turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and is contained within a timber-framed partition wall.