Crossrigg Hall

Crossrigg Hall is a large house designed around 1864 by Anthony Salvin, with additions and alterations made by J.H. Martindale around 1915 that match the original style. The building features squared, snecked hammer-dressed rubble with a string course and quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The original masonry is made of local pink sandstone, while the additions use a yellower stone. The roofs are covered with graduated slate and include dormers; the gables have stone copings with ball finials at the apex and kneelers. There are corniced ashlar chimneys, some of which project, and moulded cast-iron gutters.

The house has an asymmetrical plan and is mostly two stories tall. A wing was added to the north side, featuring an embattled tower built in 1915 to conceal a water tank. A large mullioned and transomed stair window has segment-headed lights. The original carriage porch was reused in 1916, with the side arches widened. A canted bay window was added to the west elevation, along with a full-height bay window on the left of the south elevation around 1915. Most windows are two- or three-light with moulded mullions and, in some cases, transoms. Some of the larger ground-floor windows have a wider central light with a semicircular head that springs from the same level as the transoms of the flanking lights.

In 1915, the domestic wing adjoining the east end was enlarged, and the original single-storey buildings flanking the entrance to the small yard at the rear were used for storage. Salvin's interior has been preserved, and original detailing has been matched where extensions were necessary. The main 'Jacobean' stair was carved in 1915, but Salvin's original stair was reused in the tower.