North Lees Hall

North Lees Hall is a late 16th-century tower house with a lower attached domestic range, with some 19th-century alterations and restoration in 1965. It is constructed of coursed rubble gritstone, resting on a chamfered plinth, with quoins, and originally had an embattled ashlar parapet with moulded merlons and a lead roof, now covered with asphalt. A taller stair tower projects from the north east corner and is attached to a two-story domestic range.

The south east elevation of the tower house, which is three stories high above a basement, features stacked 6-light recessed hollow chamfered mullioned and transomed windows. The first floor window has a hood mould with stops, while the ground and second floor windows have continuous dripmoulds. The windows now hold 20th-century casements, those on the ground floor incorporating diamond-leaded lights in the upper sections. The stair tower slightly projects to the rear of the main tower, featuring single lights within chamfered surrounds to illuminate the staircase landings. The north west elevation has a projecting stack resting on corbels at the height of the first-floor windows, and a wide doorway with deep chamfers to the jambs and lintel. The south west elevation has four 4-light hollow chamfer mullioned openings towards the north west and three 3-light hollow chamfered mullioned and transomed windows towards the south east, suggesting a change in floor levels at the rear of the tower. A full-height stack projects between the windows, now truncated at parapet level, but retaining the base for diagonal stone chimneys.

The domestic range adjoins the stair tower and is likely a later, lower rebuilding of an earlier structure. It has a stone slated roof with intermediate and end stacks, coped gables with moulded kneelers, and is two stories high with three bays, with an advanced gabled range off-centre to the north east of the doorway. The doorway has a moulded surround and a plain planked door. Three-light chamfer mullioned windows are located above the doorways, and a former 19th-century 3-light mullioned and transomed window in the gabled range has been partly replaced with 20th-century joinery. A 20th-century casement occupies an opening with a heavy lintel at the north east end.

Inside, the tower is served by an oak newel staircase, with moulded stone doorcases leading into the principal rooms. The ground and first floor rooms feature moulded plaster ceilings, all extensively restored in 1965. The ground floor plasterwork is dated 1594 and includes a moulded frieze and a moulded soffit to the main spine beam. The first-floor plasterwork is more elaborate, with moulded ceiling panels, a frieze, and a spine beam soffit. Both ground and first floors have moulded stone surrounds to the hearths and Tudor arched heads, with carved chamfer stops to the jambs.