Westerdale Hall

Westerdale Hall is a house that has been converted into a youth hostel. Originally built as a shooting-box for the Duncombe family before 1874, it features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, and roofs made of Lakeland slate and lead. The building is designed in a Baronial Tudor style and has a square plan with canted extensions on the southeast that enclose a service courtyard.

The elevations are very irregular, ranging from 1 to 5 storeys, with an even taller tower stair turret. The crow-stepped gables and stone-mullioned windows of various sizes, some with transoms, add to its character, although most of the window woodwork has been replaced.

The entrance front is 2 storeys high with attics of differing heights and consists of 3 irregular bays. It features a central open porch with a Tudor arch and a blank shield above it, along with a Tudor-arched inner door. To the left, there is a canted screen wall with another Tudor-arched door and an octagonal pavilion with a tented lead roof. The right side has battered lower courses and retains some original leaded glazing in the window heads. The garden front has a 3-bay layout with a gabled left bay that includes a 2-storey square window projection, a central stair window with armorial glass, and a massive 5-storey battlemented tower on the right.

Additionally, there is a row of conjoined diagonal stacks above the left ridge and another row on the 2-storey service wing on the south side of the courtyard.