Winder Hall

Winder Hall is a farmhouse, with a later use as an outbuilding, originally dating to 1612, but largely of the 17th century with a 19th-century roof. The building is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It has an L-shaped plan, with a wing extending to the southwest. The building is two storeys high with wide eaves and verges, featuring single-chamfered mullioned windows.

The northwest wing’s northeast elevation has four bays. The ground-floor windows are two-light, with labels now lacking mullions and containing horizontally sliding sashes; the window in the third bay is now an entrance with a glazed door. The first bay has a window with chamfered reveals, and the second bay has a blocked window with a lattice pattern to the lintel. The first bay’s entrance has a sunk triangular head, a dated lintel, and a label mould with head stops, along with a studded door fitted with strap hinges and a knocker. Cross-axial and gable end stacks are present.

The adjacent northeast elevation of the northwest wing has three bays and resembles the previous elevation with two-light windows. A corbelled gabled oriel with a four-light, double-chamfered mullioned window projects from the first floor of the second bay. An entrance in the first bay has chamfered reveals and a label mould, while the third bay’s entrance has a sunk triangular head and a label mould. The lights in the second and third bays are blocked. A cross-axial stack is also visible.

A small, single-storey gabled wing projects to the return, featuring small-paned glazing in the return window and openings for a dove cote in the gable. The northwest gable end has blocked two- and three-light windows. The southwest elevation has a long gabled wing with an end stack, and to the right, a large projecting lateral stack with slate set off and stringcourses. This wing has three-light windows – those on the ground floor have labels – while the left return features two-light windows. To the left is a re-entrant stair wing, covered by a catslide roof; a timber conservatory covers a two-light window and entrance, with a further two-light window above.

The southeast elevation, under a gable, has three bays on the ground floor with three-light windows and a continuous label mould. Two-light windows are situated above, while a three-bay section to the right contains two windows of two lights, one blocked but now with small-paned glazing and a ground-floor end light. There are blocked three-, two-, one- and one-light windows to the first floor. Two entrances are present, one featuring a sunk triangular head.

Inside, there is a 17th-century panelled door, a segmental-arched fireplace with a 19th-century grate within a later fireplace, a stone spiral stair, and in the northeast wing, chamfered beams and joists.