Cressbrook Hall and attached terracing

Cressbrook Hall is a small country house dating to 1843, probably designed by Weightman & Hadfield for Henry McConnel, with extensions added in 1851. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone, vermiculated gritstone blocks, and gritstone dressings, with a Welsh slate roof and moulded stone coped gables that continue as eaves copings, along with moulded finials. The building has moulded stone ridge and eaves stacks arranged in groups of two, three, four and five, along with a single stone gable end stack.

The house is built in Tudor style and has an irregular L-plan, with a later wing projecting to the west. The asymmetrical north elevation has a five-bay section plus a further five bays. The 1843 section to the east has a central gabled bay with a doorway featuring a moulded surround and a four-centred arch, flanked by tall side windows. An oriel window with mullions and transoms sits above the doorway, and there is a single light window in the gable. The two bays to the left have a projecting chimney stack, a cross window to the ground floor, and a single light window above. The two bays to the right have two two-light mullioned windows to the ground floor and two two-light windows above. The 1851 range to the right is similarly designed with one and two-light windows.

The south elevation’s 1843 range comprises three symmetrical bays, with the central bay set back and featuring an arcade of three four-centred arches to the ground floor, topped with a gableted parapet. A four-light mullioned and transomed stair window is positioned above. Gabled bays flank the central bay, each with a two-storey castellated canted bay window of three plus two-lights, the ground floor windows incorporating a transom.

The 1843 range exhibits a chamfered plinth and a chamfered string course acting as hoodmoulds to the ground floor windows, with returned hoodmoulds to the upper windows. The 1851 range to the left is in a similar style, with a two-storey gabled block on the right and a single-storey billiard room to the left. Between these is a blind wall with rooms behind, as well as the site of a former conservatory. Balustraded terracing extends to the south and east, accompanied by a sundial dated 1853. The gardens were laid out by Edward Kemp.