Rawdon Hall

Rawdon Hall is a lesser gentry house dating from the 17th century, likely built in two phases and altered over time. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a stone slate roof and features an extended T-plan. The main hall-range runs on a north-south axis, facing east, with a crosswing at the south end and another at the rear on the west side. The building has two storeys, except for the west wing, which has three storeys.

The main range has a central two-storey gabled porch with a chamfered Tudor-arched outer doorway beneath a steeply cambered lintel, inscribed with "G R." Above the doorway is a recessed two-light window with round-headed lights. To the left of the porch, there is a recessed transomed window with seven lights, featuring chamfered mullions and a hoodmould with inward-returned ends, along with a four-light window above that has unusual ogee-headed lights. To the right, there are chamfered mullion windows with four and two lights at the ground floor, and four lights above. Two ridge chimneys flank the porch.

The projecting wing on the left has a dripmould that wraps around it, with a recessed mullioned window on each floor of the gable and a round-headed light at the ground floor of the re-entrant. The return front of this wing features an inserted doorway in the centre, two five-light windows at the ground floor, and two four-light windows above, with a single light between them. The south gable of the west wing, which is three storeys tall, has similar six-light windows at the ground and first floors and three lights above, all under hoodmoulds with inward-returned ends. The return wall of this wing has inserted windows in a similar style.

Inside, the ground floor of the south and west wings contains fully-panelled rooms with Renaissance-style carved overmantels, one of which in the west wing is inscribed "Anno" "16" Domini 25, situated above an 18th-century stone fireplace with a keystone and moulded cornice. The south wing has a guilloche frieze to the panelling, while the west wing features a fluted frieze. Both rooms have chamfered beams. Additionally, the hall range includes part of a carved stone frieze believed to have been removed from a monastery, along with a moulded stone doorway leading into the wing.