Bullsnape Hall

Bullsnape Hall is a farmhouse, originally a manor house, dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. The exterior is primarily handmade brick on the front, roughly coated, with some sandstone rubble and quoins. It has a slate roof. Originally designed with an E-plan layout, a wing on the left has since been demolished. What remains is a three-bay hall range with a projecting gabled porch in the centre and a crosswing at the right end.

The building is three storeys high. The full-height gabled porch, which also acts as a stair turret, is in line with a ridge chimney and has a doorway offset to the right and a small, segmental-headed two-light casement window at the second floor, offset to the left. To the left of the porch is a horizontal rectangular three-light casement window on each of the first two floors. To the right is a chamfered mullion and transom eight-light window at ground floor, and an altered window on each floor above, all previously mullion-and-transom windows. The gable of the right wing contains two windows on each of the first two floors, and one above, all square casements, the upper ones with modern wooden mullions and transoms.

The rear of the house features a full-height lean-to of sandstone with quoins. This lean-to has a three-light chamfered mullion window at ground floor on its rear wall, and a similar window on each floor of its right side. The first bay of the hall range retains the remains of a three-light brick mullion window with a hoodmould at the first floor. The rear gable of the wing has a doorway at ground floor and a four-light window at the second floor.

Inside, the housepart and kitchen within the hall range feature back-to-back inglenooks with stone hecks and large bressummers, the latter displaying tongue-stopped chamfers. The bressummer in the kitchen is unusually high. The kitchen also has two similarly decorated beams. The housepart has two beams concealed by boxing, two doors at the lower end with moulded panelling and one door in the rear wall with fielded panels. The staircase has been altered.

Historically, Bullsnape Hall served as the manor house of the Threlfall family, held of Knights of St. John, until the estate was divided in the later 16th century. It was subsequently occupied by the Procter family, who were recusants. Much of their estate was sequestrated in 1607.