Graythwaite Hall

Graythwaite Hall is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, with significant later alterations. Rear wings were added around 1810 and 1920, and a south-facing extension was built in 1890, likely by R. Knill Freeman. The house is constructed of roughcast stone, with some red sandstone dressings, and has slate roofs.

The south facade features a central two-storey section composed of three bays, flanked by projecting three-storey gabled bays. The central section has stone quoins and gable copings, the left gable incorporating three ball finials, and the right a shaped gable with two. A verandah with chamfered 4-centred arches and a continuous hoodmould sits centrally, along with a balustrade featuring two ball finials, a top cornice, and a blocking course. The end bays have two-storey bay windows with balustrades and ball finials, and mullioned and transomed windows with 4-centred heads to the lights – the left bay having 4-light windows, and the right a 5-light window with return lights to the ground floor, and 4-light windows on the first floor. A panel reads “TSM/1890”. Second-floor windows are 3-light double-chamfered mullioned. The ground floor’s cross-mullioned windows flank the entrance, while the first floor has 2-light windows with leaded glazing. An ex situ datestone on the right return of the first bay reads “CS/EC/1[5]78” with Sandys Arms. A cross-axial stack rises from the roof, featuring octagonal shafts.

The west facade, of eight bays, incorporates a later rear wing to the left. The first three bays project under a gable, bays four to six have a 20th-century addition on the second floor (the fourth bay with a gable), the seventh bay projects under a gable, and the eighth is gabled, with a two-storey bay window and balustrade. Most windows have cross-mullions, leaded glazing, and label moulds. A datestone reads "TSM/1852 1890”, and a corbelled-out gable-end stack with an armorial bearing is present on the eighth bay. Again a cross axial stack features octagonal shafts.

The east facade has a flat-topped ground floor projection and a projecting lateral stack to the first bay and a four-storey tower in the second bay, with first and third floor sill bands, and 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows. The top has 3-light windows with elliptical heads to the lights, north and south. Crow-stepped gables top all four faces. Three bays adjoin a four-bay rear wing, all of two storeys and with sashed windows with glazing bars. A late 17th-century entrance features an Ionic aedicule with a pulvinated frieze. The 1810 wing projecting north has wide eaves and verges and sashed windows, with a round-headed attic window to the gable. A gable-end stack and a lateral stack are also present, along with a large flat-topped dormer. The 1920 wing to the north-west contains stables and pigeon lofts.

The interior includes some pulvinated panelling sourced from another house.