Norland Hall

Norland Hall is a farmhouse dating to 1690, bearing the initials 'IBT' for John and Betty Taylor. It was restored and altered in the 1960s. The building is constructed of large blocks of coursed squared stone, with coursed rubble to the left return, and has a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high with two gabled bays.

The south-west (garden) front features a central, two-storey gabled porch with a cusped plinth decorated with whorl motifs. The porch has a moulded doorway with a round-cornered soffit to a monolithic lintel, and a 1-over-3-light window above, with a hoodmould and datestone. Shaped kneelers, moulded coping, and ball finials (only the bases of the finials survive on the kneelers) are present. A gutter spout is located in the angle with the main range to the right. A chamfered oculus is set into the first floor of the left return. Internally, there are stone benches and a boarded door within a moulded Tudor-arched surround with a diamond at the stop of the left jamb. The main range has a chamfered plinth and double-chamfered mullion windows. The left bay has an 8-light window with a king mullion, a continuous ground-floor dripmould and a transomed 4-light window above with a decoratively-stopped hoodmould. The right bay is similar, but the ground-floor window has been converted into a blocked doorway; the dripmould terminates in starred roundels, and the first-floor hoodmould has heart-and-diamond stops. Kneelers, shaped coping, and ball finials are also present here. A corniced external stack is on the left side, and a 1960s external stack is on the right. The rear elevation is rendered and has two gabled bays, with the right bay slightly set forward. The left return has a gabled section, featuring a quoined and stepped external stack; to its right is a lowered 2-light window with a hoodmould. To the left end is a 3-light window with a 2-light single-chamfered window above. The right return shows a section of 1960s rebuild to the right of the external stack.

Inside, the front left room has a restored Tudor-arched moulded fireplace with a central shield pendant dated 'ITB' and cornice. The front right room contains a moulded, 1690 decoratively-stopped Tudor-arched fireplace, and a 17th-century 2-panel door with decorative heads to the panels. The house was originally built by John Taylor as a residence for a younger son, also named John. Taylor previously lived at the original Norland Hall, located just to the west of this building, which was dismantled and exported in the early 20th century.