Ryecroft Hall

Ryecroft Hall is a fine mid-17th century hall built of coursed gritstone, featuring a rectangular plan and a stone slate roof with saddlestones and kneelers. It has three chimney stacks along the ridge. The south entrance front showcases five-light chamfered mullion windows, some of which still have diamond leaded glazing. A prominent feature of this elevation is the large hall window to the left of the porch, which is mullioned and transomed in two groups of four double lights, with small square leaded panes and simple tracery at the top of the upper row of lights. A moulded weathered string runs between the storeys, creating a drip mould over the ground floor windows and extending over the 1½ storey hall window. The porch, likely originally gabled with the string carried over, now has weathered flat coping. The chamfered doorway features a slightly cambered head and a large lintel inscribed with "N over C I 1669" (for Christopher and Isabel Nettleton).

Inside, the hall has seen some modernisation but retains a gallery with turned balusters running around two sides at first floor level; the third side has had its floor cut through for a staircase. There is a very wide fireplace flanked by bearded head posts that support a massive chamfered bressumer, which is arched to accommodate a formerly enclosed passage door at one end. A grooved panel partition meets a stop-chamfered beam. In the kitchen on the north side, there is a massive wall post, suggesting that the 1665 date refers to a rebuild or recasing of an earlier timber-framed house.