Mock Beggar Hall

Mock Beggar Hall is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed squared stone, with a graduated stone slate roof. The building is composed of three wings: a two-bay left-hand wing from the 15th and 18th centuries; a central, two-bay wing dating from the 15th and 17th centuries; and a two-bay, right-hand, gabled wing from the 17th century. A significantly altered 17th-century wing extends to the rear.

The central wing's entrance has a board door set in a moulded segmental head surround, topped by a hoodmould with a semicircular pediment featuring a mask at its apex. A tablet bearing the date "6 9" is within the pediment. To the right of the door is a small square window. Inside the doorway is an inner doorway dating from the 15th century, moulded with lead pointing and featuring a head shaped like a ‘W’ with rounded angles. In the right-hand bay is a wagon board door set in a chamfered surround with a segmental arch. The left-hand wing has raised quoins to the left. All windows are tripartite, with plain stone surrounds.

The right-hand, gabled wing projects forward. There are nine steps up to the first floor. The central wing’s upper entrance is a board door in a moulded, chamfered segmental headed surround, above which is a circular opening, a hoodmould stepped with three round arched pigeon holes above the central one, with another hole positioned above this. At ground floor level, to the right of the door, is a casement window in a chamfered surround, with a stepped chamfered pattern to the lintel and a hoodmould. First-floor windows flank the door; the lintel stones are decorated with two chamfered semicircles, accompanied by hoodmoulds, and three round arched pigeon holes above each. The building has shaped kneelers and stone coping, with end stacks featuring two diagonally set shafts.

Internally, a fireplace is inscribed with the date “R 1696 T”. A doorway is present that likely dates back to the original 15th-century house. The property has a historical connection as a monastic grange to Bolton Priory.