Kenley Hall

Kenley Hall is a manor house, now functioning as a farmhouse, built around 1639 for William Carter, with later additions and alterations. The structure is made of roughly coursed gritstone rubble with red sandstone dressings and features a machine tile roof. It has two storeys over a semi-basement kitchen and attics, with a three-bay front. The windows are double-chamfered mullions, varying from two to four lights, and there is a gabled dormer in the roof slope at the center. A tall late 19th-century gabled porch made of red brick, with lateral steps to the left, provides access to the semi-basement kitchen and the principal floor. The house has a prominent integral stack at the center of the back wall, which originally had three octagonal brick shafts but now features three late 19th-century rebated red brick shafts. There is also a subsidiary integral red brick end stack behind the ridge to the left, and the gables were rebuilt in late 19th-century red brick. A two-storey kitchen range was added at right angles to the rear around 1913.

Inside, the house has timber-framed cross-walls with square panels on the principal and first floors, and chamfered ceiling beams throughout, featuring bar stops. The fireplace in the main room on the principal floor has a wooden lintel inscribed with "William Carter 1639" and a moulded wooden overmantel. This room also contains some contemporary oak panelling with inset cupboards featuring butterfly hinges and fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges, which are dated 1639 and were originally from former doors. A 19th-century open-well staircase is likely positioned where the original staircase was located. The three-bay roof was reconstructed in the late 19th century but retains the original double purlins and straight windbraces.