Murton Hall

Murton Hall is a house built in the late 18th century with a 19th-century addition. It is finished in stucco and has a roof made of Westmorland slates and pantiles. The building features a central hallway entry, with a long cross wing extending to the rear left and a shorter one to the rear right, along with a Victorian extension on the left side. The house is two storeys high with attics and has three bays. The entrance includes a six-fielded-panel door with a patterned overlight in a plain door-case, flanked by canted bay windows that contain 16-pane sash windows. On the first floor, there is a central sash window with glazing bars and a wrought-iron balcony, accompanied by two 16-pane sash windows. The eaves are stepped and feature sprocketed eaves, with slates on the sprockets and pantiles above. There are six-pane flat-headed dormers, gable coping, and end stacks, with tumbling-in to the gable ends. The sashes have glazing bars, and the left extension has a hipped roof. Inside, the hall features an original open-string staircase with three turned balusters per tread supporting a ramped handrail, and there are elliptical-arched niches in both the drawing room and dining room.