Lower Stoodley Farmhouse And Attached Stoodley Hall Stooley Hall Cottages

Lower Stoodley Farmhouse and attached Stoodley Hall and Stoodley Hall Cottages (Nos 1, 2 and 3) form a large group of four residences. The main range dates from the mid to late 18th century and extends east to west. Attached at a right angle is a two-storey hall facing east. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The west end of the main range features two bays of four-light, flat-faced mullioned windows, which have been altered to two lights on each floor. The left-hand return wall has five bays of windows; four lights to the ground floor, two to the first floor, and two to the second floor, the latter with chamfered mullioned windows. Cellar windows retain 17th-century double-chamfered mullioned windows of three and four lights. Single-storey wings project forward, featuring ramped copings with a Gothic window containing blind tracery and a chimney stack. The top floor of the main range was formerly a factory.

The attached hall has two bays of three-light, stepped windows on each floor. The right return wall features a coped gable, and a double-chamfered two-light window (lacking a mullion and with a sash window) to the first floor, along with a gable stack. The rear of the building forms a courtyard. The hall has a tall doorway with an architrave and cornice. To the left of the entrance, there are stepped windows on both floors; to the right, single sash windows on both floors, and a further stack rises from the ridge.

The farmhouse section, a long range, retains three bays of four-light, flat-faced, mullioned windows to the second floor, with 21 leaded panes. Other windows are sash windows. To the right, a gabled cross-wing projects, featuring three bays of sash windows with projecting sills. A blocked large central taking-in door is visible on the second floor, and a blocked oculus is at the apex. A coped gable with kneelers is present. Four stacks are visible on this range. The current house appears to be built over an earlier 17th-century structure, remnants of which are visible in the double-chamfered mullioned cellar windows. A weathered plinth and different walling are apparent above these older windows. A loose stone is inscribed 'REBUILT 1587'.