Sugworth Hall

Sugworth Hall is a farmhouse, now a country home, with a core dating to the 17th century. It was substantially altered in the 19th century, with a tower wing added around 1930, likely by E. Vincent Harris for Charles Boot. The building is constructed of coursed, squared sandstone and gritstone, with some later work using herringbone tooling. The roofs are covered in stone slate, and there are ashlar stacks.

The building is L-shaped, comprising a hall wing to the right and a crosswing to the rear projecting to the left; the angle between these wings has been filled in, with a tower to the rear right. The building is two storeys high, with the tower rising to three storeys. The front elevation has three windows on the first floor. The original 17th-century gabled bay to the right contains double-chamfered mullion windows: a three-light window on the ground floor, a two-light window covered by a 20th-century lead sundial, and a five-light window on the first floor. All are beneath a continuous dripmould. Above the windows is a carved panel depicting a lion and crossed hatchets, with the motto 'DEO NON FORTUNA' under a dripstone. A late 19th-century projecting gabled bay to the left has mullion and transom windows. To the right of this bay is a single-storey projecting porch with a panelled door and a Tudor-arched fanlight with carved spandrels above. There is a single-light window above the porch. The dripmould from the 17th-century bay continues across the ground floor. The building has moulded kneelers and gable copings. There are corniced stacks to the left end of the hall wing and to the ridge. A baffle-entry door with an arched lintel is on the left return, accompanied by an added two-storey bay to the right, with a raised continuous dripmould above the door. The tower to the right features an embattled corner turret with a well-dressed oriel balcony, a two-storey canted bay with mullion and transom windows to the rear, and a flat roof.

Inside, the 17th-century hall features a spliced spine beam, indicating the previous position of a baffle-entry against a former smoke hood and heck wall, with a correlating door in the right wall. A 20th-century wing attached to the rear left corner of the range is not of special interest.