Bashall Hall

Bashall Hall is a house of probable 17th-century origin with early 18th-century alterations, though the detailed development remains unclear. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof.

The building comprises three distinct elements. The east block is the tallest, rising to 3 storeys with attics, its main roof running east-west with 2 gables facing north and south. The central block to the west is said to have been reduced in height following a fire and stands at 2 storeys with its roof running north-south. The west wing, also of 2 storeys and formerly with an attic, projects towards the south and has a roof parallel to the central block's main roof.

Early windows throughout are characterized by an outer chamfer and inner hollow chamfer with hoods. The main facade faces south. Under the right-hand gable of the east block, the ground floor contains a 12-light mullioned and transomed window with a king mullion, now cut into by a later window. The first floor has a 12-light mullioned and transomed window, while the second floor has 2 similar windows of 6 lights each. Above is a blocked oculus. Under the left-hand gable, the ground floor has a 5-light mullioned window and a door with plain reveals. On both the first and second floors are 3 sashed windows with glazing bars and stone surrounds featuring a shallow cyma moulding. A deep plain stone band runs above both sets of windows. Below the gable is a blocked oculus matching that on the right.

The central block has mullioned windows on the ground floor. The first floor features sashed windows with glazing bars and architraves, with a doorway between them reached by external stone steps. This doorway has an architrave with bolection moulding and a broken segmental pediment on console brackets, with a cartouche above. Below the gable is a plain stone band with a blocked oculus above.

The west wing displays a 4-light mullioned window on the ground floor, a 14-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor, and a blocked attic window. Its right-hand return wall contains a blocked chamfered doorway with a Tudor-arched head. The north wall has a buttress with moulded offsets towards the left. Further right, on the first floor of the east block, is a doorway (now a window) with a surround chamfered in two orders and a Tudor-arched head. In the central block, a large canted bay window contains a 3-light mullioned window on the otherwise blank ground floor and continuous glazing on the first floor with 2 transoms.

Internally, the eastern ground-floor room has ovolo-moulded main ceiling beams and 2 chamfered stone doorways with Tudor-arched heads. Further west, in line with the first floor doorway visible on the outside of the north wall, is a dog-leg stair with its second flight of stone and the first floor landing partly carried on a moulded stone arch. The barley-sugar balusters and ramped handrails are probably an 18th-century addition. On the first floor, the eastern room contains panelling mostly of early 17th-century type, while the adjoining room to the west on the south side has panelling of early 18th-century type with raised panels and bolection mouldings. The central block contains a room with 2 chamfered doorways with Tudor-arched heads and a moulded fireplace with a Tudor arch, taken from elsewhere in the house. The west wing, presently being restored and open to the roof on the first floor, has trusses of steep pitch with tall king posts rising off tie beams and with queen struts.

A drawing by Samuel Buck dated around 1720, labelled "The East Prospect of Bashall The Seat of William Ferrers Esq.", shows the south front almost as it appears today. A low building to the right of the house in the drawing may be a demolished east wing or the retainers' building located behind the house.