Strickland Hall And Stables Adjoining

Strickland Hall and stables adjoining is a farmhouse and stables, now a private house, dating to the mid-16th century with late 16th-century additions and mid-17th-century alterations, originally built for the Crackenthorpe family. The building is constructed of mixed limestone rubble with flush quoins, and has a graduated greenslate roof with 20th-century red sandstone coping, along with substantial rubble chimney stacks. The overall layout forms a T-shape, with a two-storey, five-bay stable range extending to the rear right. The front facade originally formed the rear of the house, and a centrally positioned, gabled, stone porch, dating to the 17th century, was formerly a dairy, its roof being reduced in height. The porch doorway is likely 20th century, but appears older. Returns feature two-light stone-mullioned windows. The facade includes ground-floor windows of two and three lights with chamfered stone mullions, the right-hand window having transoms, alongside smaller windows with chamfered surrounds. Upper-floor windows are generally three-light, mullioned-and-transomed, with smaller chamfered-surround windows also present. The rear of the building has two-, three- and four-light stone-mullioned windows, and two mullioned-and-transomed windows between which is a defaced coat-of-arms. A pointed-arched doorway is on the left side, and further right are flat-headed doorways and loft doorways. The rear has a stair projection that obscures part of a stone-mullioned window. The stable range, according to the owner, is the oldest part of the complex. The interior of the main hall has a large, segmental-arched stone fireplace dating to the 16th century, and a blocked spiral stone staircase. One end room contains elaborate late 16th-century patterned plasterwork on the ceiling, which is in a poor state of preservation, as well as C17 oak-panelled walls. A simpler patterned plaster frieze is found in a bedroom above. A semicircular staircase has been added to the domestic portion of the stable. Several windows have been blocked. Extensions to either side of the hall and a lower extension to the stable range are not considered to be of significant interest; the building is recognised for its Group Value.