Debdale Hall

Debdale Hall is a country house, dating to circa 1730 with substantial alterations in the 1830s, and now used as an Old People’s Home. It is constructed of ashlar, partly rendered, with a hipped slate roof and ashlar dressings. The building has a plinth, parapet, sills, moulded eaves, a coped pediment, single gable and ridge stacks, two side wall stacks, and three roof stacks.

The house has a square plan and is two storeys high, six bays wide by seven bays deep. The south front features a two-storey canted bay window with three sashes to the left. To its right is a sash and a portico with two Doric columns, a flat roof, and single glazing bar lights on either side. It has a half-glazed 19th-century door with a fanlight, and a sash window to the right. Above are six sashes. The east front is pedimented, with a projecting central bay, a central sash flanked by two plain sashes. Above this is similar fenestration, and above again, an oval window in the pediment.

A rear addition to the right, two storeys and two bays wide, features a sash, a blocked door, and a blocked window on the ground floor, with two sashes above. The west front has a narrow central recess between flanking wings. The north wing’s west side has a door with glazing bar over light, and above it, a blocked opening flanked by single sashes.

A single-storey lean-to outbuilding of brick with a slate roof, adjoining the north wing, is not of special interest. The north wing’s south side has a barred Yorkshire sash, to its right a 20th-century Yorkshire sash and door with overlight, and above, to the right, a Yorkshire sash and a casement. The south wing’s north side has a sash to the left, a casement, a blocked doorway, then two casements and a Yorkshire sash. Above this are three sashes and a casement. To the west is a parapeted rendered porch with two sashes in moulded architraves. To its left is a hipped bay window with six casements, and to its right, a sash. Above this are three glazing bar sashes. Adjoining outbuildings are not of special interest.

The north front has a projecting single bay wing to the west, with a triple sash and a plain sash, followed by a blocked opening and a Yorkshire sash. Above this is a casement and a sash. The return angle has a sash above. Inside, there is an early 19th-century cantilevered stone dogleg staircase with an intermediate landing, a scrolled handrail, decorated wrought iron newels and balusters, some with scroll brackets, and a round-headed recess on the landing. The ground floor features two-panelled Classical doorcases with fanlights, one blocked, two 19th-century doors, moulded and foliate plaster cornices, and six 18th-century doors.