Kiddal Hall and attached entrance gateway range of farmbuildings

Kiddal Hall is a late medieval manor house, later used as a farmhouse, with attached farm buildings. It is located in Barwick in Elmet and Scholes, Yorkshire. The house was altered significantly in the 1930s, with the removal of original features including an exposed timber frame and a dated stone oriel window from 1501. The outbuildings, of medieval origin, were refenestrated in the 17th century and the roof was raised in the 18th century.

The house is built of large, dressed medieval masonry, with some hammer-dressed stone. It has a stone slate roof, while the outbuildings have concrete pantiles and corrugated iron. The building follows an irregular L-shaped hall-and-crosswings plan. The main hall range is three bays wide and has quoined angles. Much of the original fabric was removed, leaving mainly C20 two-light and three-light chamfered mullioned windows. A gabled porch was added around 1930, and another wing contains a large stack between the first two bays of the hall, and a lateral stack.

The attached farm range is set back. A continuous chamfered plinth runs along the front. The right-hand return has C20 mullioned windows that interrupt the original hood mould. A brick ridge stack is visible. The farm range has three C17 two-light chamfered mullioned windows (lacking mullions) on the first floor to the left of a segmental-arched cart entry leading to a rear courtyard. Above the cart entry is a two-light window and a small gable revealing the roofline of an earlier steeply-pitched gable, now at a flatter pitch overlaid with a corrugated-iron roof. An archway with an inner rebate for a door is situated in the re-entrant angle, alongside a small chamfered light. The rear of this range features a similar archway to the cart entry, along with two late medieval doorways – one Tudor-arched, the other with a straight lintel, both with a 7.5 inch chamfer and broach stops. Another doorway on the first floor appears to be a reused medieval feature. Some C17 windows are present on the first floor.

Inside the farm range, the medieval doorways lead into rooms with medieval coffered ceilings formed by enormous chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The house interior has no special features.