Selside Hall And Attached Outbuilding

This is a late 14th-century house with alterations from the 16th and 18th centuries, and a small 19th-century addition to the north. It is built of roughcast stone with some ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with the south wing having thick walls, likely representing the earliest part of the building.

The east front has two storeys and five bays, with the first and fifth bays projecting under gabled roofs. The ground floor has a chamfered light in the first bay, while the second and fourth bays incorporate sash windows with single glazing bars and horns. The fifth bay has a casement window. The first floor features a two-light single-chamfered mullioned window with a transom, cusped lights, blind tracery to the head, and a label mould with head stops over the first bay. The second to fourth bays have sash windows matching those on the ground floor, and the fifth bay has a two-light double-chamfered mullioned window with open tracery to the head and a label mould. A gabled porch with a pointed entrance and inner entrance sits in the fourth bay, and has a battened door with studs and strap hinges. Two large cross-axial stacks are visible. A single-storey extension to the north has a projecting wing with a gable-end stack, an entrance, and a casement window. A large stack also rises from the north gable end.

The south elevation has four windows on the first floor; three are sash windows, and the third has a casement in chamfered reveals. A lateral stack has set-offs and an octagonal shaft. The west elevation has a gable-end stack to the projecting end bay, with a varied arrangement of sashes and top-hung casements. A re-entrant stair bay is present under a catslide roof. The entrance to the end bay has a small window to the right.

Inside, the south wing’s barrel-vaulted ground floor incorporates two rooms, separated by an entrance with a corbelled lintel. A similar entrance leads to the hall. The hall features an early 16th-century moulded fireplace beam with run-out stops and a "heck" post; a stop-chamfered beam and joists are also present. A later 18th-century inserted stone fireplace has a corbelled lintel with a fluted key. An open well stair has turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail, with a subsequent straight stair also present. The first floor has an oak floor. Tradition holds that a hidden room above the main fireplace connects with the roof.

The house was the home of the Thornburgh family, a local recusant family, until 1744. A first-floor room at the north end was used as a Catholic chapel, and later as an Anglican chapel until a new church was built in 1718.