Orthwaite Hall And Adjoining Barn

Orthwaite Hall and the adjoining barn are a farmhouse and former house, likely built in the late 16th century or early 17th century. The barn features a coat-of-arms panel above its doorway, inscribed with "C.R.1675," indicating Christopher Richmond, and displays the arms of the Richmond family of Highhead alongside the Hudleston family of Hutton John. The structure is constructed from painted mixed slate and limestone rubble, topped with a graduated greenslate roof and stone chimney stacks.

The barn has roughcast walls and a roof that is partly replaced with corrugated asbestos. It stands two storeys high and consists of six bays, with a right-angled barn to the left that shares a common roof line. A 20th-century panelled door is set within a stone architrave under a segmental pediment. The building features two-light stone-mullioned windows with 19th-century leaded casements, all framed by architraves beneath a pulvinated frieze and cornice. The barn has blocked original house windows that are now covered by roughcast.

A central doorway displays a chamfered alternate-block surround beneath a keyed lintel, while a plank loft door and other openings are from the 19th and 20th centuries. Rear extensions include elements from the 17th and 19th centuries; the right extension has a two-light window with a removed stone mullion and a 19th-century round-headed staircase window to the left. The property belonged to the Simpson family in the early 17th century before being purchased by the Richmonds. The Browne family acquired it in the early 18th century and held it until 1894.