Hackleton House

Hackleton House is a house dated 1754, which was altered and extended in the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings and features a slate roof with rendered ridge and end stacks. The building has an L-plan layout, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a three-window range. The main front facing the road includes a central six-panel part-glazed door with an overlight, panelled reveals, a moulded wood surround, a fluted frieze, and a straight hood. There are 12-pane sash windows on the ground and first floors, all with stone sills, flat-arched heads, and keyblocks made of ironstone; the 'dummy' windows on the right side of the ground and first floors do not open. The exterior features a plinth, quoins, a flush ironstone storey band, moulded and coved stone eaves, and a pair of gabled dormers with two-light leaded casements and stone-coped gables with kneelers on the left side. A datestone inscribed EM/1754 is located on the left gable. The rear right wing was extended around 1800 and includes a two-storey, one-window projection accessed by five stone steps, featuring a six-panel door with a fanlight, a moulded wood surround, a plain frieze, and a straight hood with canted sides. The right elevation of the wing, which faces the garden, has two large canted bay windows with reeded pilasters at the angles and moulded cornices, likely from the early 19th century.

Inside, the staircase hall has chequered stone paving and an early 19th-century open well staircase with carved tread ends, stick balusters, and a mahogany ramped and wreathed handrail. The study features a blocked inglenook and an ogee-stop-chamfered spine beam. The dining room has a moulded plaster cornice, similar mouldings on the encased spine beam, and an original eared wood chimneypiece with rococo scroll relief carving on the central tablet, veined marble slips, and a late 19th-century tiled fireplace and grate. The bedrooms contain original stone or marble chimneypieces, which are painted and have early Victorian cast-iron grates. There is also a brick-vaulted cellar, part of which was formerly used as a dairy with slate shelving. At the time of the last survey, the ground and first-floor windows on the far right were boarded up.