Cutthorpe Hall

Cutthorpe Hall is a manor house of late 16th or early 17th-century origin, substantially altered and extended in the mid 18th century and again in the late 19th century. The building is constructed in coursed squared Coal Measures sandstone with ashlar gritstone dressings, featuring quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, ashlar ridge and sidewall stacks, and stone slate roofs. The structure is of 2 storeys with sections rising to 2 storeys and attics, the attics incorporated into advanced gabled wings on both front and rear elevations. The plan is complex, arranged around a linear 17th-century core.

The east elevation contains the principal front range of 4 bays, with an additional or remodelled 19th-century bay to the south end. An off-centre doorway with quoined and moulded surround, a 4-centred arched head, and a plain hood mould sits against a ridge stack. To the north stands a gabled range with coupled 2-light flush-mullioned windows to ground and first floors, with the separating masonry pier almost a major mullion in the 17th-century manner. A 2-light flush-mullioned attic window sits above. The ground floor features clear glass panes while upper floors have 2-paned lights and casements. Above the main doorway is a 19th-century inserted or replacement window of 3 lights, with the central light as a side-hung casement. To the south of the doorway are stacked coupled 2-light flush-mullioned windows, those to the ground floor with clear glass panes and those above with 2-paned lights.

An advanced gabled crosswing to the south has remodelled window openings centrally placed within the gable. All window openings feature advanced stone surrounds, perhaps formerly for sashes but now fitted with 20th-century combination frames to ground and first floors, each consisting of a side-hung casement set amongst fixed lights, totalling 6 panes per window. The attic window has leaded lights within a 2-light side-hung casement. The side wall contains combination window frames within advanced stone surrounds. The added or remodelled bay to the south end has a stone surround and combination frame to the ground floor, with an oeil-de-boeuf window above. The wide south gable displays a 19th-century moulded door surround with depressed semicircular head below a hood mould with label stops. Ground and first floor windows are asymmetrically set with advanced stone surrounds and combination frames.

A sidewall ashlar stack on the west sidewall sits adjacent to an asymmetrical gable, with a 19th-century 3-light chamfered mullioned window to the ground floor and a 12-paned window with a 2-paned hinged sidelight to the first floor. To the north is a two-and-a-half storeyed advanced wing, formerly free-standing, featuring quoined corners and stacked 3-light 17th-century chamfer-mullioned windows beneath drip moulds to ground and first floors, with a blocked 2-light 17th-century window to the attic. The windows contain leaded lights with rectangular quarries. Adjoining the 17th-century wing or tower is an extension of the northern roof slope and a 2-storeyed gabled range forming a one-and-a-half gable addition with a valley gutter, all of 18th-century date. These sections feature stacked 2-light 18th-century flush-mullioned windows either side of the gutter line, linked by bands to the heads and sills. A massive ashlar chimney rises to the full gable of the 18th-century addition, with a plain drip band. A single-storey projection of one bay extends from the gable face behind a tall parapet wall at the end of the range.

The north sidewall range returns to the garden elevation with a lower 2-storey part containing 2-light flush-mullioned windows with advanced heads to the west bay, a doorway with a shallow flat-roofed open-fronted porch, and an 18th-century 2-panelled door. The taller atticed range features a massive projecting stack, shouldered on both sides at ground floor to provide a massive hearth recess to the gabled range on the front elevation.

The interior was not inspected at the time of listing but is reported to contain three oak-panelled rooms, decorative plasterwork of early 17th-century date, and an attic gallery or chapel with a flueless fireplace.