Bigland Hall

Bigland Hall is a house dating from the late 16th century and 17th century, with significant remodelling and extensions in 1809. It is constructed of roughcast stone with slate roofs. The south-east facade has two storeys and five bays, with the central bay projecting. Features include a first-floor sill band, a top cornice, a coped parapet, and a hipped roof. Quoins are present, and the windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The central first-floor window has an architrave, consoled frieze, and cornice, decorated with a relief of a lion passant reguardant holding a wheatear, with blocks at the ends displaying pairs of wheatears (Bigland). The entrance has a Doric porch with paired columns; the vaulting over the porch was boarded in 1986. The outer door and inner half-glazed doors, with an overlight featuring glazing bars, provide access. Two cross-axial stacks and two stacks to the rear slope are present. The left return includes a conservatory and a projecting, flat-roofed block, and features a round-headed stair window with glazing bars. The rear wing has a double-pitch roof and sash windows, most with glazing bars. The left return features a conservatory and a large garage door, whilst the right return has a projecting gabled wing with a smaller parallel wing to the rear, featuring paired gable-end stacks with a bell between. A round-headed stair window with glazing bars is found at the rear.

The interior displays an extensive and complex plan, showing multiple phases of construction, and contains surviving panelled doors, moulded architraves, panelled window reveals, plaster cornices, and a good range of hearths. The entrance hall features two busts in niches. One room in the rear wing has a fireplace bressummer, likely dating from the 16th or early 17th century, carved with the initials 'BMB NG' (the 'N' reversed). The 'NG' was initially interpreted as a date, 1161. Three reception rooms are attributed to John Hird, and some interior decoration is possibly by Webster of Kendal.