Howden Hall

Howden Hall is a late 17th-century house with significant alterations and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of rendered brick, with a mix of Welsh slate, stone slate, pantile, and Westmorland slate roofing. The building consists of a long, southern range with a shorter wing to the rear housing the staircase, and further extensions to the north-east during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The south facade is two storeys high with four first-floor windows. It features rusticated quoins. A central entrance is framed by a divided overlight in a pedimented Doric porch. The ground floor has an original transomed two-light casement window to the left, and two sash windows with glazing bars to the extreme left. A sash window with glazing bars is on the right. The first floor features sash windows with glazing bars, with the window above the door set within an eared surround. There is an overhanging modillion eaves course, and a hipped roof with ridge stacks.

The east facade is also two storeys high, featuring seven first-floor windows. The left range comprises two 17th-century bays, an early 19th-century canted bay in the centre, and a two-bay early 19th-century section to the right, with a single-storey bay added to the extreme right. The left range has 24-pane sashes beneath wedge lintels. The canted bay features three round-headed windows with intersecting glazing bars in a Palladian surround. The right range incorporates an inserted glazed door to the left, a sash window with glazing bars, and a pedimented porch to the right. A further sash window with glazing bars is on the extreme right. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars throughout. A sill band runs along the base of the canted bay, and there is an overhanging modillion eaves course. The roof is hipped to the left, with gable coping and shaped kneelers, and has gable copings with shaped kneelers. The right-hand gables of the two sections, and the canted bay, have a pyramidal roof.

The interior includes a hall with a closed-string staircase featuring column-on-pedestal balusters. There are six-fielded-panel doors, massive ceiling beams, a good 18th-century hob grate, a substantial moulded cornice to the landing ceiling, and a dining room and bedroom above, both featuring bolection moulded panelling and massive ceiling beams. The dining room's chimney-breast has two panels flanked by broken pilaster strips, while the bedroom’s has an original pulvinated fire surround and continuous pilasters. The sitting room has plain panelling to the dado, an eared fireplace with a pulvinated frieze featuring a foliage pattern and central plaque, a dentilled cornice, and six-fielded-panel doors.