Old Cragg Hall

Old Cragg Hall is a house dated 1617. It is constructed of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The house has a roughly F-shaped plan, consisting of five divisions, with the first two forming a broad double-pile wing featuring two front gables and a two-span roof. A plinth and cavetto moulded string course run over the ground-floor windows. The windows are largely double-chamfered mullioned, most with lowered sills and new mullions likely added in the early 20th century. The main façade features a four-light window over a six-light mullioned and transomed window. An early 20th-century gabled porch, in keeping with the building's style, has a depressed Tudor-arched lintel inscribed with the date and an elaborate moulded surround. A six-light window is present alongside a six-light mullioned and transomed window. The gables are coped with kneelers and ball finials, with carved faces to the apex stones, and a projecting rainwater-spout also has a carved face. A set-back area features a tall, narrow mullioned and transomed window of six lights with a single light above. The first floor juts out, incorporating a carved heraldic tablet over a six-light cruciform window with a hoodmould and straight returns. Further set back are two windows of two long lights over a two-light window. The right-hand return wall has an original three-light window over a four-light window and an arched light to the apex of the gable, which is coped with kneelers and ball finials. An sympathetic addition dated 1933 is attached. The interior has not been inspected. The hall was illustrated in A. Comfort’s work from 1913.