Fairhurst Hall

Fairhurst Hall is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with some remains from the 16th century. It was altered in 1948 when mid-19th century extensions were removed. The building is constructed of brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and features a hipped slate roof. It has two storeys and a half-H plan. The south front includes a plinth, chamfered quoins, and a cornice that is partly obscured by timber gutters. The sashed windows have glazing bars and rusticated lintels. Each wing has two bays, while the recessed center has three bays. The central doorway features a rusticated surround, and there are chimneys on both the left and right sides.

At the rear of the right-hand wing, there is a 17th-century projecting stone stack with offsets. The interior of the ground and first floors has little architectural interest. The roof trusses over the center and right-hand wings appear to be from the 18th century, featuring tie-beams and raking struts, with windbraced purlins. Some timber is reused from a timber-framed building. The four-bay roof over the left-hand (west) wing shows signs of a timber frame encased within the current structure, with visible curved braces to the principal posts and part of the wattle and daub infill below the eastern wallplate. The northern truss is marked 'III' and the southern one 'IIII', suggesting that two trusses were removed, likely during the insertion of the 17th-century stack and the rebuilding of the gable wall in stone.