Abbot Hall

Abbot Hall is a house, now used as a Methodist holiday centre, dating primarily from the 1840s with extensions added around 1870. It is attributed to Webster of Kendal. The house is built of painted roughcast with limestone dressings and has a slate roof.

The original part of the house has a T-shaped plan and two storeys plus an attic. The south facade is almost symmetrical, with three bays, the central bay projecting under a gable with shaped bargeboards. The windows have tall, chamfered surrounds and paired glazing bar sashes separated by timber mullions. The upper sashes are rounded at the head. The windows in the central bay have hood moulds, and a continuous sill band runs across the first floor. There is a small attic window in the central bay, and the central chimney has a limestone cap.

A taller gabled wing was added later in the 19th century, to the left. This wing features a two-storey bay window, retaining its ground-floor mullions but with a 20th-century casement window on the first floor. Further extensions include a three-storey tower with a pyramid roof towards the rear of the house. The right-hand (east) gable wall of the original house has a two-storey limestone canted bay window and shaped, pierced bargeboards. A three-window range in a similar style forms the rear wing, facing east. A 20th-century lean-to glass porch covers the entrance doorway on the rear wall of the main range, and it has a deeply-chamfered stone surround with a hood mould.

Inside, the right-hand front room has a white marble fireplace, originally from a first-floor bedroom. The left-hand room contains a similar fireplace, now painted and disused. The entrance hall features a plaster frieze with laurel wreaths. A lantern light with painted glass illuminates the first-floor landing in the original part of the house. The staircase has an iron balustrade. Timber double doors lead from a lower half-landing to a second stair hall in the western wing, a later 19th-century addition. These doors contain painted glass and a deeply moulded surround on the western side. The second stair is of pine with arched heads to the openings between balusters. Later extensions are not considered to be of special architectural interest.