Waddow Hall

Waddow Hall is a large house with late 18th-century construction, incorporating earlier 17th-century remains. The building is constructed of pebbledashed rubble with a slate roof. It is two storeys high with attics; the south facade has a continuous dormer added after the property was acquired by the Girl Guide Association in 1927. The main block comprises five bays and features projecting quoins, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The windows have architraves and are sash windows, with the lower panes lacking glazing bars. A doorway, accessed by four steps, has a semi-circular head with a fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars and is flanked by Tuscan pilasters with a broken fluted entablature and open pediment with mutules. The attic storey presents five bays with similar windows, but with plain stone surrounds. A further four bays are set back slightly to the left, also displaying projecting quoins, a sill band, and a string course. These windows also have plain stone surrounds, and the attic storey of these bays features five windows. Four axial chimney caps are set back from the ridge, with a fifth chimney on the left-hand gable. Towards the rear, both gables have copings of 17th-century type. At the rear of the main house, a section of continuous drip course remains, truncated by a tall stair window with a plain stone surround and semi-circular head. To its right is a four-light mullioned window with an outer chamfer and an inner hollow chamfer, partly reconstructed.

Inside, the left-hand front room of the main block contains a plaster cornice, a fluted frieze and a band of festoons. The doors of the two front rooms date from the early to mid-19th century, with flat panels and raised mouldings forming a border. The rear hall incorporates a flying stair with stick balusters and a swept handrail. Two moulded main joists are exposed, possibly originating from the 17th century. A reused 17th-century decorated lintel, featuring a central device of a head flanked by wings, sits above a fireplace. On a flat floor in the western part of the house are un-chamfered hardwood main ceiling joists of moderate size, believed to be part of an earlier house. A painting from 1690 depicts a building with 17th-century details and proportions consistent with the current house.