Stonegarthside Hall

Stonegarthside Hall is a house, originally a tower house, dating probably to the late 13th century, likely built for Baldwin de Wake. Wings were added in 1682 for Henry Forster, incorporating earlier features. The construction uses mixed blocks of calciferous and grey sandstone, set on projecting plinth stones with shaped quoins. Reused medieval moulded stonework, believed to be from the building's original entrance, is built into the 17th-century extensions. The roof is of graduated Welsh slate, with crow-stepped gables and ashlar chimney stacks, some of which are false.

The house is three stories high, with numerous bays in a Scottish Baronial style, arranged around a small courtyard that was formerly part of the house. A two-story, three-bay courtyard wing is probably of the late 17th century. The former entrance has a moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice, flanked by blocked windows. Upper floor windows have moulded architraves, now open and unglazed. A battlemented parapet features quatrefoil openings and ball finials to pilaster strips at each end. The flanking gabled wings of 1682 have sash windows with glazing bars in moulded stone architraves. Similar windows are on the sides, and rear windows have chamfered stone surrounds. The central three bays of the rear wall are part of the original four-story tower; the only original feature is a heart-shaped opening in the basement, leading to a similarly shaped stone removed to an outhouse.

Inside, there is a broad medieval square staircase spanning three stories, and continuing to a fourth. The engaged newel posts have semicircular insets with central fillets and pendants at the top and bottom, and the worn stone steps are in two flights between floors. The staircase's size suggests a larger medieval building existed than the visible remains, and further remains may be within the extensions.