Stakes

This is an early 17th-century house, situated in Bowland Forest. It is constructed from roughly shaped rubble stone with a slate roof and has a T-shaped plan. The west wall has five bays, with weathered stonework at the base. The windows are characterised by an inner hollow chamfer and an outer chamfer, each with a hood mould. The ground floor window in bay one is blocked. Bay two contains a sash window with glazing bars, retaining some of its original 17th-century stonework. Bay three has a mullioned window of four lights, bay four a cross window, and bay five a mullioned and transomed window of six lights. The first-floor windows are mullioned, having four, two, four, three, and three lights, respectively. Chimneys with moulded copings and weathered offsets stand between bays two and three, and bays four and five. The gables have copings with kneelers. Each gable also features a ten-light mullioned and transomed window on both floors, and the north gable has a circular, moulded attic window with a hood.

The east wall of the main house has blocked windows with hoods on each floor to the south of the wing. A two-light mullioned window is situated on the first floor, above a door with a plain stone surround. To the north of the wing, a brick lean-to addition features a blocked window with a hood above, and a four-light mullioned window on the first floor. Below this is a hood mould to a blocked window containing a door with plain reveals. The south wall of the east wing has two bays, with cross windows on the ground floor and two-light mullioned windows on the first floor, all under hood moulds. A doorway with a cyma moulding and a shaped lintel is positioned between them. On the north wall of the wing, two former two-light windows with hoods survive on the first floor. On the ground floor, a blocked window with a hood is present to the left, while a doorway blocked to create a window is incorporated to the right; this doorway has a cyma moulding and a lintel, on which a date and initials were originally displayed. Above the window is a plaque with a moulded border, inscribed with the Latin phrase: 'NVNC MEA MOX HVIVS SED POSTEA NESCIO CVIVS NEMO SIBI NATVS’. The unusual location of this doorway may indicate it was moved at some time. The east gable has a chimney.

Inside, the northern fireplace of the main range has a wide, moulded segmental arch with an outer chamfer around the voussoirs. The pantry, at the south end, contains a very large sandstone slab set on a brick base. The rear wing incorporates a dividing wall of vertical panels with moulded muntins and rails, and a dog-leg staircase with three flights, featuring square moulded newels and turned balusters.