Wyreside Hall, Coach House, and Ice House

Wyreside Hall is a classical country house of two storeys facing west towards the River Wyre, built of sandstone ashlar and coursed sandstone blocks with slate roofs. The main residence wraps around a service range to the rear. Inside, a central entrance hall connects to a separate stair hall behind it, with reception rooms extending either side. Two large south-facing reception rooms occupy the southern end of the building, linked by a corridor inserted from the garden entrance in the centre of the south elevation. This modern corridor connects through to a staircase inserted at the south end of the original stair hall. The first floor contains bedrooms and dressing rooms, some now subdivided. Two separate cellars occupy the spaces beneath the north and south ends of the house. A rear link service range features long corridors on both floors with rooms opening off them. The eastern service block rises to three storeys on the north side and two storeys on the south side, originally housing a separate cottage, with some rooms now subdivided.

The west-facing front elevation presents a classical symmetrical composition of eight bays articulated by giant Tuscan pilasters. A plinth and entablature define the base and cornice. The outer bays and two central bays project slightly. The central bays feature a moulded pediment and a porch with four fluted Ionic columns, entablature, and panelled balustrade. The outer bays have parapets with corner palmettes. Windows throughout are unhorned hung sashes of six-over-six panes, with first-floor windows having moulded apron panels. A French window has been inserted in the ground-floor window of the second bay. The central entrance doorway has an enriched stone architrave with half-glazed double panelled doors and a rectangular overlight with vertical glazing bars, flanked by tall fixed windows with glazing bars.

The south garden elevation of the main house comprises two storeys and five bays with a slightly recessed central bay, detailed similarly to the front elevation with plinth, giant pilasters, entablature, parapet with palmettes, and six-over-six pane hung sash first-floor windows. The ground floor has a central entrance doorway with a modern door and timber architrave, flanked by wide tripartite windows with pilaster mullions: a central six-over-six pane hung sash window with four-over-four pane hung sash side windows. A high stone ashlar wall screens the service range, attached to the right-hand corner of the elevation.

The rear service ranges are of several construction phases. The link range is of roughly coursed sandstone blocks. A twentieth-century lean-to extension obscures the ground floor on the south side. The north side displays a rough joint towards the left-hand side, corresponding to a thick internal cross wall. To the right of this joint are four ground-floor windows with ashlar lintels and relieving arches, three now blocked and two twentieth-century garage doorways inserted. To the left is a ground-floor window without a relieving arch and a modern single-storey lean-to. At the right-hand end stands a tall round-headed stair window hard against the rear wall of the main house, originally deeper, with an adjacent second stair window now largely blocked. All windows are hung sashes, some unhorned and some with later horned frames. The eastern service block, running north-south, rises to two and three storeys of dressed coursed sandstone blocks with hipped slate roofs. Windows comprise horned sash frames and modern casements.

Early nineteenth-century decoration and fixtures remain throughout the interior. Ground-floor reception rooms and first-floor bedrooms and dressing rooms retain early nineteenth-century enriched cornices, except for the south-west reception room and adjacent corridor, which have cornices relating to twentieth-century corridor formation. Early nineteenth-century features include the majority of ground-floor doors and several first-floor doors, all four-panelled with moulded architraves and panelled reveals. The ground floor contains early nineteenth-century marble fireplaces in the entrance hall and the adjacent northern room, with further nineteenth-century marble fireplaces on the first floor. Windows on both floors retain their panelled shutters. The main staircase is an open well with classically detailed cast-iron balusters and a swept mahogany handrail terminating in a scroll with carved tread ends. Above rises a square lantern with moulded cornice, glazed side lights, and an enriched coffered ceiling. An adjacent staircase is a twentieth-century imitation of no interest. The south cellar retains its original layout, including two barrel-vaulted rooms, all with stone flag floors.

The stable and coach house range is built of coursed rubble stone with shaped quoins, kneelers, and coping on its west side, with fenestration modified by inserted, blocked, and altered windows. The north elevation features a three-bay two-storey central section flanked by projecting gabled walls with Diocletian windows in their apexes, and a further three-bay section extending northwards. The south gable houses a cottage with a central doorway in the south elevation. The east side is irregularly fenestrated. The right-hand gable contains a doorway with a reused decoratively carved stone lintel, featuring a central panel with relief carved initials I C and a partially lost date of 17??. The interior has been altered for modern use and contains no fixtures or fittings of interest.

The ice house is a rectangular stone building sunk into a hillside within a small wood. It has an arched doorway, now missing its door. The barrel-vaulted interior originally had a second inner door, no longer present.