Salkeld Hall

Salkeld Hall is a country house with a complex history, dating back to the late 16th century and incorporating earlier walls, with additions made in the 17th century, a c.1790 facade for the Lacy family, and further works in 1836 and the 1870s. The house is constructed of coursed red sandstone rubble, with rebuilt quoins, and has graduated greenslate roofs with prominent banded red sandstone chimney stacks. The front facade is of a late Georgian style, two storeys with five bays, and is flanked by single-storey, two-bay wings.

Behind the wings lie the earlier core of the house. To the left is the oldest part, probably dating from the 14th century, comprising three storeys and two bays set at right angles to the front, with a rear 18th-century single-bay extension. To the right is a right-angled section of the 16th-century extension, three storeys and three bays. Behind the front, as part of its double span, is the 16th-century house itself, three storeys and four bays.

The front facade features a central doorway, originally with a stone architrave under a pediment which now contains a casement window with intersecting-glazing-bars. Sash windows with glazing bars are set within raised sandstone surrounds. The right return has a round-headed 19th-century doorway. An old wall constructed of large sandstone blocks includes a small medieval window, while elsewhere there are double- and single-sash windows with glazing bars. A 20th-century sliding glass French window is also present on the right return. The earlier section of the wall has two-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds, transomed on the first floor. One ground-floor window is a blocked doorway, and another has been enlarged, but both remain in keeping with the other windows.

At the rear, a projecting late 18th-century extension has a pediment and round-headed windows, with Venetian end windows. A central, projecting, battlemented two-storey porch dated to the 19th century provides access via a panelled door. A number of the original 16th-century two- and three-light stone-mullioned windows have been blocked, although they remain visible. Two small chamfered-surround windows of the same date are present on the second floor.

The interior was extensively altered in the 1790s. Features include panelled doors, plaster ceilings with moulded cornices, and panelled shutters to each window. The house has been internally divided into holiday flats.