Wolfen Hall

Wolfen Hall is a house that possibly dates back to the 16th century and underwent alterations in 1867-1868. It is constructed of slobbered rubble and features a steep slate roof. The building has two storeys and two bays, with end chimney stacks. The windows are framed with plain stone surrounds and have wooden casements. The entrance door, located between the bays, has plain reveals. The chimney caps are adorned with copings and weathered offsets.

At the rear of the house is a parallel range that appears to be of a later date. Inside, the right-hand room contains a blocked tall wooden-mullioned window with five lights, a wooden lintel, sill, and splayed wooden jambs in its rear wall. A timber-framed wall separates the hall from the left-hand room and extends through to the first floor. A main post, positioned against the front wall, is tenoned into the tie beam at the ceiling level of the first floor. The rear wall of the left-hand room, which divides it from the stair hall, is also timber framed and shows many redundant peg holes, indicating possible re-use or reconstruction.

Between the entrance hall and the stair hall is a chamfered wooden door surround with a four-centred head. The dog-leg staircase has been reconstructed but retains its 17th-century handrail and moulded newel post. A stone wall now divides the rear wing but was originally an external wall and features a blocked window with wooden mullions.

A drawing from the Weld collection at the Harris Art Gallery in Preston, dated 1841, depicts the house extending further to the right (northeast), where a later 19th-century extension now connects. The drawing also illustrates a chamfered doorway with an ogee head, which may not necessarily date back to the medieval period.