Cruckton Hall

Cruckton Hall is a small country house, now used as a school. It was primarily built in the 1770s, with significant additions and alterations made in the mid-to-late 19th century, alongside the incorporation of parts of an earlier house. The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, and brick ridge stacks. The symmetrical design features two projecting, two-bay cross-wings to the north. The house stands three stories high, with a continuous brick floor band to the first floor and a moulded stone string course to the second. A stone parapet tops the building, rising to low pediments over both the central section and the cross-wings. The windows are arranged in a 2:1:3:1:2 pattern, with the central three bays slightly projecting, and all are flush-framed glazing bar sashes with segmental heads. The central entrance is marked by a sandstone Doric porch, likely dating from around 1900, and features half-glazed double doors. An 18th-century lead downpipe is located in the angle between the left-hand wing and the main range. A kitchen range was likely added around 1800, and a single-storey billiard room with a slate roof and bracketed eaves cornice was added around 1900 to the left. The garden front has been considerably altered; a prominent, two-storey canted bay was added around 1812, containing a tall, 18-paned glazing bar sash window on the ground floor. The interior has been altered, but the ground floor of the west wing retains early 17th-century chamfered ceiling beams from the earlier house. A late 18th-century staircase is present on the south side, and the first floor of the 1812 addition features a fine plaster ceiling with a hunting horn as its central motif. The house is believed to have been largely rebuilt by Edward Harries in the 1770s.