Gawthorpe Hall Including South Wing Gawthorpe Hall

The building comprises a manor house, dating to the mid-17th century, with alterations in the 19th century to the rear, but retaining a late medieval roof. It is constructed of well-coursed gritstone with stone slate roofs. The original E-shaped plan has been modified, with bays 2 and 4 filled in to create a flush frontage beneath five gables. The central bay was originally a porch and now features a lower gable without an attic window; it has a Tudor-arched doorway above which is a three-light transomed window, both beneath a separate hoodmould. Large mullioned-and-transomed windows of several lights are present on each floor, with dripmoulds, and three-light transomed windows to the apexes of the gables. These gables are coped with finials to the apex and eaves, and include projecting rainwater spouts. There are two ridge stacks. The rear elevation mirrors the front with five gables, although some 19th-century windows have been inserted. Two bays retain original transomed windows to the first floor and attic. The third bay, at the rear of the porch, has a tall stair-window with plain stone surrounds. The fourth bay features a stack of four diamond-set flues.

Internally, the first two bays have been significantly altered but retain an original corner fireplace with a Tudor-arched lintel and moulded surround. The fourth bay contains a ground-floor rear room with a Tudor-arched doorway facing the opposite wall. It has a large fireplace with a segmental arch, skewbacks, and stop-chamfered surround, which backs onto a second fireplace with a bee-hive oven in the rear room of the fifth bay. This fifth bay also has chamfered spine-beams and joists with ogee stops. The first floor and attic of this bay have basket-arched fireplaces. The roof of the fourth bay is carried over an earlier collar-rafter roof with a steeper pitch. One bay retains a collar-rafter roof, likely late 14th or 15th century; the hall and cross-wing feature a king-post roof with evidence of some internal timber-framing. A separate roof to the hall has two and a half bays, while the cross-wing has a four-bay roof. All bays are characterised by enormous king-post trusses, large scantling, and joweled king-posts with curved braces to the ridge. This complete late 15th-century roof has mitre-lapped purlins, all pegged onto the back of the principals. These two roofs are unique within the region and are in good preservation.