Middleton Hall

Middleton Hall is a farmhouse, likely dating to the late 14th century, with significant extensions from the early to mid-15th century. Further alterations occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, alongside 18th and 19th-century extensions. The building is constructed from stone rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof, with parts of the east and north sections featuring stone slate. Originally an H-plan hall house, the north service wing no longer exists.

The west façade has three bays. The angle of the north wing remains visible to the left, and the third bay projects under a gable and is roughcast. Windows are straight-headed, with label moulds. The first and second bays contain two-light, double-chamfered mullioned windows; the window in the first bay has a transom and round cusped heads, while the second has Perpendicular tracery with an escutcheon in the tracery, both dating to the early to mid-15th century. The third bay has later, single-chamfered mullioned windows with round-headed lights. All windows have small-paned glazing. The entrance on the left features continuous mouldings and a hood mould with head stops and an escutcheon. The left return of the third bay has a blocked light to the first floor, likely originally for a stairwell. Stones above the entrance are inscribed with "IM 1647".

The south elevation includes a projecting lateral stack dating to the 16th century. The first bay has a three-light straight-headed window, also from the 16th century, with round-headed lights and a label mould. An entrance has replaced a window in the second bay. Other windows are sash windows with vertical glazing bars, with two being casements. Cross-axial and lateral stacks are present, with the lateral stack corbelled at first-floor level. The east gable end has a reset cusped round-headed light and dressed quoins.

The north elevation retains stone slate roofing to the medieval part, now partially obscured by a 19th-century lean-to kitchen outshut with casement windows and rock-faced sills and lintels. A 19th-century extension features windows with two elliptical-headed lights. A stack serves the outshut which is adjacent to a stair projection under a catslide roof. The hall's east elevation mirrors the west, but a 14th-century window is blocked, and a 15th-century window to the right lacks mullions. A plainer entrance is situated to the right alongside the angle of the demolished north wing. A large ridge stack has set-offs. The north gable end incorporates later lean-to sheds.

Inside, the screens passage has three chamfered pointed entrances and signs of a blocked first-floor entrance. The hall entrance has a Tudor head and the original door. The hall features a 16th-century fireplace with later infill. Late 15th-century stained glass roundels comprise two stars, and 'MR' and 'IHC' monograms. An entrance with a shouldered lintel leads to a stone stair. A parlour contains late 16th and mid-17th century panelling with decorative friezework; reused panelling to the overmantel curves out to form a head. A pointed entrance leads to the 15th-century extension. On the first floor, a Tudor-arched fireplace has a shouldered architrave displaying the arms of Middleton impaling Tunstal, dating to the mid-17th century, and an entrance with a shouldered lintel.