Morley Hall

Morley Hall is a house dated 1683, featuring mainly early 19th-century windows and later 19th-century alterations and additions at the rear. It is constructed of large, well-coursed dressed stone and has a Welsh blue-slate roof. The building has two storeys and appears to have originally been designed with a three-room plan, including a hall-and-crosswing layout with a gable-entry doorway from 1683.

The first cell has an added full-height canted bay with a band and an embattled parapet, featuring a 15-pane sash window with a plain-stone surround on each face and floor. The central cell includes a semicircular-arched stair window with voussoirs and a raised keystone, located to the left of the doorway in a shallow porch with monolithic jambs and lintel, along with a cyma-moulded cornice and a sash window above. The right wing slightly projects forward and has quoins, a canted bay window with small-paned sashes on each face, a cornice, and a blocking course, with two sash windows above. The gable is coped with kneelers and has one ball finial, while there is also a coped gable to the left.

At the rear of the first cell, there is a lateral brick stack, and an ashlar ridge stack at the junction with the wing. A large lateral stack is present on the right-hand return of the wing. The left-hand return features a 17th-century doorway with composite jambs, a dated lintel, and a cyma-moulded surround to the left of a single sash window in the first cell, with a matching window above. To the left of the door, there is a long added range at right angles to the front range, which has two projecting full-height rectangular bays with mullioned windows and an embattled parapet, along with coped gables and one ridge stack.

Attached to the front of the building is a plaque inscribed: "Built in 1683 by Thomas Dawson whose Grand-Daughter married Lord Loughborough (Lord Chancellor of England). The residence of Oliver and Alice Scatcherd from 1884-1906." The house was formerly the home of Sir William Overend Priestley, a distinguished physician who lived from 1829 to 1900. The interior has not been inspected.