Gresgarth Hall

Gresgarth Hall is a house, likely built for Thomas Edmondson around 1802, although its style may suggest a slightly later date, incorporating elements of a medieval structure. The hall is constructed from sandstone rubble with a slate roof. The main facade demonstrates a balanced design, featuring a central three-storey porch flanked by single bays, and a projecting one-bay wing on the left side. All these sections, except for the left-hand gabled bay, are topped with embattled parapets and have string courses. The windows are characterized by hoods, outer casement mouldings, inner hollow chamfers, and typically consist of two cinquefoiled lights separated by a mullion, containing sashed windows with glazing bars. The porch includes a corner turret and a wide, moulded doorway with a Tudor-arched head. To the right of the main facade stands a projecting gabled wing, resembling a chapel, with angle buttresses and a tall window featuring three cusped lights, an outer casement moulding, and a Tudor-arched head.

The north-east return wall houses a doorway, possibly from the 16th century, with hollow chamfers and a pointed head. A short wall adjoins the front facade on the left side, containing a moulded door surround with a Tudor-arched head and a reset datestone inscribed 'CG 1650'. This wall terminates in a buttress, where it meets a garden wall not included in the listing. The garden facade, facing south-west, is five bays wide, with the two right-hand bays forming a gabled projection with angle buttresses. The window openings extend through two storeys and incorporate casement mouldings, Tudor-arched heads, and hoods. Within these openings are moulded timber window frames with two cusped lights on each floor, with glazing bars. A band of tracery decoration sits between the two storeys, and the third bay features a ground-floor door with tracery decoration and a Tudor-arched head.

The rear, south-east, facade has a plain central block with a ground-floor bow window, believed to be the remnant of an 18th-century house that was later remodelled, potentially the original house of 1802.

Internally, the ground-floor ceiling of part of the north-east wing is a wide plastered stone barrel vault, likely surviving from a medieval defensive building, although it has been partly interrupted by a passageway. A two-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window, dating back to the late 16th century, was previously located in the rear wall but has been reset in a rear wing. The vaulted wing contains a moulded, shouldered fireplace of early 18th-century design, also relocated from another building. The rear room of the central block, with its bow window, features a plaster cornice of early 19th-century style. The open-string stair has square newels, a ramped handrail, and cast iron tracery infill. The south-west wing contains two ground-floor marble fireplaces, the rear one in a Gothic style.