Banks Hall

Banks Hall is a country house that has been converted into an old people's home. It was built in the mid-18th century, with 17th-century wings at the rear. The structure is made of coursed, dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and an L-shaped plan with wings and infill at the back. The front facade is symmetrical with seven bays and has rusticated quoins.

The central doorway is prominent, featuring an eared architrave and a console-supported open segmental pediment, which has been brought forward to create a stone porch. The windows are 12-pane sash types set in moulded architraves, with the aprons of the first-floor windows extending to a band above the ground-floor windows. There is a moulded eaves cornice and a blocking course, and the roof is hipped with rusticated ashlar ridge stacks. The right side of the building is similar but slightly plainer. The doorway on this side also has an eared architrave, a cornice on console brackets, and an overlight with radial glazing.

At the rear, the 17th-century wing on the right side has been altered on its outer side but still retains several cross-windows on the inner side of the upper floor. The gable copings are hollow-chamfered on moulded kneelers. The shorter rear wings, which also have hipped roofs, show traces of early openings.

Inside, the central room, which was formerly the hall, is panelled, with the panelling believed to be from Cannon Hall. At the back of the hall, two Doric columns support the landing of an impressive dog-leg open staircase, which features gadrooned tapering balusters (two per tread), a ramped and moulded handrail, and a panelled dado.