Clerkson'S Hall

Clerkson’s Hall is a house, dating from 1631, with significant alterations in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is now used as National Coal Board offices. The building is constructed of coursed squared rubble and dressed stone, with ashlar dressings. It has a chamfered plinth, first and second floor lintel bands, moulded eaves, projecting quoins, and a C20 tile roof with coped gables, kneelers, and finials, supported by 4 ridge, single gable, and single side wall stacks. The building has a complex, irregular cross plan linked to an 18th-century stable range to the east.

The south front features a central, projecting gabled bay with three casement windows. Above are three casements, and above again, a central casement. Recessed angles have single casements. The west front has a recessed centre with gabled wings on either side. The left-hand gable has a casement, and the recessed bay contains a casement and a C19 canted hipped porch with two casements. Above the porch are six casements on varying levels. Return angles to the north and south have a single casement and a door, respectively, with a casement above each. The south front also has two 20th-century flat-roofed dormers. The east front incorporates off-centre, flat-roofed single-story additions from the 19th and 20th centuries, alongside adjoining 18th-century outbuildings.

The north front has a lean-to addition to the left, adjoining North Cottage, a 18th-century building with a coursed squared rubble construction and a gabled pantile roof, single gable and single ridge stacks, two storeys, and two bays. It features a Yorkshire sash window and a door to the north and two Yorkshire sashes above. Adjoining South Cottage, with three bays, has two ridge stacks, a 20th-century casement to the south, two small casements, a blocked barn door and a 20th-century casement above. The north side of a further building contains two pairs of garage doors and fenestration with Yorkshire sashes.

The interior features a fully panelled 17th-century dining room with a reeded frieze and a panelled 17th-century plastered ceiling with strapwork and drop finials. There is also a ceiling with cased beams, foliate plaster, strapwork and moulded corbels. A main dogleg staircase, with landings, has panelled square newels, bulbous turned balusters, a moulded handrail and scrolled string.