Morthen Hall

Morten Hall is a country house dating from the early 18th century, with later additions to the wings. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. The house has a symmetrical facade, with a main range of two storeys and attics, featuring seven bays, and lower side wings, each with two storeys and three bays.

The main range has a plinth and large projecting quoins. The entrance is marked by a panelled door set within a shouldered and eared architrave, above which is a rectangular panel and a segmental pediment. The ground-floor windows are multi-paned sashes set within slightly projecting surrounds with bead-moulded inner arrises and moulded sills. A first-floor band runs across the facade. A prominent apron panel sits below the central window, which has a moulded sill, shouldered and eared architrave, a console-shaped keystone, and a cornice. Other ground-floor windows mirror this design. A five-bay pediment tops the facade, an oculus within the tympanum featuring multi-paned glazing bars in an architrave. A balustrade rises above the outer bays, terminating at a die with depressed-scroll brackets. The roof is hipped with corniced ashlar ridge stacks.

The left wing, set back from the main range, has a plinth at ground-floor sill level and three sashes with glazing bars in quoined surrounds with flat arches. A first-floor sill band is beneath three small six-pane casements. It also has a corniced ashlar ridge stack. The right wing is similar but with margin-light sashes to the ground floor and a compact ridge stack.

The rear facade features a large round-arched stair window to the left of centre, with a rusticated quoined surround and a large sash window with Gothic glazing bars.

The interior is well-preserved and includes a room to the front left with a marble fireplace, Composite pilasters, a modillioned cornice, and a panelled plaster ceiling. There is a stone-paved inner entrance hall with archivolts to the side doors, and a wooden staircase with curved iron balustrades. The landing has bolection-moulded door surrounds and an ornate Doric frieze. Several fireplaces remain, including one to the first floor rear right, featuring an ogee-arched panel and Blue John inlay. Service stairs have splat and turned balustrades. The unaltered service wing to the left retains original 19th-century fittings, including kitchen ranges and a hand pump.

Morten Hall was formerly the home of the Athorpe and Middleton-Carver families, and an inventory of the house from 1809 exists. Historical documents, including Athorpe Muniments from 1544, are held at the Sheffield City Library, Archives.