Bracken Hall

Bracken Hall is a house likely dating from the early to mid-18th century, with a later addition. The house is built of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The east-facing elevation is two storeys high and four bays wide, with a dripcourse above the ground floor. The windows have wooden cross-mullioned frames, chamfered on the interior, some with opening lights; the windows in the second and fourth bays of the ground floor have three lights. The entrance, in the third bay, features a ten-fielded-panel door (configured 2/3/2/3) with strap hinges and an original latch, and a gabled porch with a segmental-arched opening. Gable-end stacks are present. The rear of the house has a lower extension under a catslide roof on the right side, and varied window openings including a cross-mullioned stair window with small-paned fixed glazing to the window above. A porch is located on the left return. Inside the house, there is a fielded-panelled partition with a dado rail and cornice, and a six-fielded-panel door with H-L hinges. The staircase has square newels and turned balusters. Original six- and eight-panel doors remain throughout. A first-floor cupboard has three fielded-panel doors. The attic contains a round-headed cupboard with pilasters featuring fluted capitals and bases, an archivolt, and a key, along with three fielded-panel doors.