Scaitcliffe Hall

Scaitcliffe Hall is a large house, originally built in 1666, with substantial additions and alterations throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. A double-pile extension was added to the rear under a two-span roof around 1738, and a separate block was constructed around 1802. Around 1833, the building was altered to create a large rectangular house with a hipped roof, and in 1835, a further range was connected to the main house by an infill.

The main range is constructed of large dressed stone with a slate roof. The rear range is watershot masonry with a stone slate roof. The south front retains stonework from 1666 at ground floor level, featuring lengthened, double-chamfered mullioned windows. The original house comprised a three-room front of four bays. The first, second, and fourth bays have five-light mullioned windows on each floor, with Gothic glazing. The third bay has an embattled porch added around 1833, with octagonal corner turrets, a depressed Tudor arched doorway with deep roll moulding, and arrowslits in the return walls. A date plaque engraved "ANTHAN EYAND NE.CROSLEY 1666" is situated above a three-light window, also obscured by the porch. A roll-moulded string course runs above the ground floor and another above the first-floor windows, surmounted by a deep parapet. A return wall, also dating to around 1833, has five-light mullioned windows on each floor, with a pointed arched niche between the bays. To the left of the south front is an arbour with Tuscan columns and an entablature engraved “JMC 1782,” later incorporating an embattled octagonal tower (solid) with arrowslits. The left-hand return wall, dating to 1738, has a fenestration pattern of sash windows with deeply moulded architraves on each floor. A right-hand bay has a first-floor window reduced around 1835 at a mezzanine level. A detached building originally stood separate from the main range but was joined by a newly built bay in 1833, featuring a doorway above which is a window with a chamfered surround. This two-storey range retains remains of cross windows to the first floor. A further bay was added around 1850 with rusticated quoins, and the first floor incorporates a blocked taking-in door. The east front of this range features a flat-faced mullioned window of ten wide, irregularly spaced lights, above similar windows of six and two lights, most with latticed glazing. The building has two ridge stacks and two octagonal stacks. Inside the rear range, the original external door preserves an inscribed lintel reading "JSC 1802”. The rear of the main range has a stair window with an architrave and pointed lintel with Gothic glazing, alongside a three-light, double-chamfered mullioned window and a former cross window. A lean-to covers the entrance doorway, with cyma moulded surround, dating to around 1738. The house is illustrated in Corry's History of Lancashire and discussed in Descent and Alliances of Croslegh of Scaitcliffe.