Dearnford Hall

Dearnford Hall is a farmhouse dating to approximately 1680-1700, with significant alterations and refenestration in the mid-19th century. Built of red brick with grey sandstone ashlar dressings, it has a hipped graded slate roof and an L-shaped layout.

The exterior features a moulded stone plinth, chamfered stone quoins, a flat stone string course, and a moulded and carved wooden modillion eaves cornice. A brick ridge stack is positioned off-centre to the left, and a truncated lateral external brick stack is located to the rear right. The front facade has 2:1:1:1:2 bays, with a central one-bay bank, featuring mid-19th century six-pane margin-light sash windows with moulded stone architraves. The central entrance has a six-panelled door within an early 19th century doorcase with panelled pilaster strips, frieze, and cornice. A circa 1680-1700 porch sits to the front, incorporating a moulded stone plinth, chamfered stone quoins, a moulded stone eaves cornice, and a triangular-pedimented gable with a carved stone cartouche and grotesque head in the tympanum, and a lugged moulded stone architrave to the entrance itself. Two semi-circular stone steps lead up to the porch.

The interior has largely been remodelled in the mid-19th century. The entrance hall contains a picture rail, moulded cornice, and cased beams with panelled soffits. A mid-19th century marble fireplace with fluted pilasters and tiled reveals is also present. The entrance hall was separated from the staircase to the right, likely in the late 18th century, with a doorway featuring a moulded architrave and Gothic arch. The late 17th century dog-leg oak staircase has a moulded closed string, barleysugar balusters, moulded handrail, and panelled square newel posts with finials and pendants. A late 17th century doorway to a room at the foot of the staircase has a bolection-moulded architrave, panelled surround, and moulded cornice. Other rooms have moulded picture rails and cornices. A fireplace in the left-hand ground-floor room has a lugged architrave, and six-panelled doors are found throughout the house. A lean-to addition is present in the angle at the rear, incorporating an integral lateral brick stack.

While initially dated circa 1840 by Pevsner, closer examination reveals the building's true construction date to be the late 17th century with subsequent mid-19th century alterations, primarily the addition of the margin-light sash windows.