Tytup Hall

Tytup Hall is a small country house dating to circa 1710, with an early 19th-century side wing. It was built for William Matson. The house is constructed of roughcast over stone, with a graduated slate roof. It has two storeys with a cellar and attic, originally five bays in width, with a two-storey, three-bay side wing set back on the left. Chamfered quoins are visible. The central doorway has nosed steps and iron railings with curved handrails, leading to a six-panel door with an integral six-pane overlight in an eared architrave featuring a rosette and segmental pediment. Eighteen-pane sashes are set in raised ashlar surrounds, moulded on their inner edges; the first-floor sashes have a thicker appearance with more glazing bars. Shaped kneelers have ball finials, and there are ashlar gable copings with truncated end stacks. The side wing has sashes with glazing bars to each floor, along with a small end stack on the left and a taller stack adjoining the main house. At the rear, nine eighteen-pane sashes are visible, two of which form stair windows and disrupt a first-floor band.

The interior entrance hall features fluted Corinthian pilasters and a modillioned cornice. An archivolt leads to the stair hall, where there are eight-panel doors. The staircase has oak treads, a panelled dado, a wreathed and ramped handrail. The front-right room has a modillioned cornice to the two-panel ceiling, with niches flanking a 20th-century archway into a rear room. A front-left room includes fielded-panel shutters on H/L hinges. A closet near the stairs has a fitted cupboard with round-arched doors, fluted pilasters, and a dentilled cornice. Upstairs, the front-right room is panelled with Corinthian pilasters and an enriched cornice. A front-left room features a false doorway and a fireplace flanked by Ionic pilasters and a dentilled cornice. The rear-right room contains an original painted overmantel depicting a rural scene with a man on horseback and two attendants approaching a bridge. A back staircase has square and rectangular newels with turned balusters.

The house was described as new in an agreement of 1713, according to Melville. In later years, it was the home of Father Thomas West, a Jesuit and author of 'The Antiquities of Furness' (1774) and 'A Guide to the Lakes' (1778), with the former work written at Tytup Hall.