Bolton Old Hall

Bolton Old Hall is a tower house dating back to the 15th century, with significant additions and alterations from the 16th and 17th centuries. It was originally built for the Scrope family and later modified by the Tancred and Wastell families. The construction is primarily roughcast rubble with ashlar dressings, and the roof is tiled with pantiles.

The original 15th-century tower, now reduced from three to two storeys, has a west elevation featuring sash windows with glazing bars on the ground and first floors. The second floor retains a blocked two-light mullion window and two loopholes in the battlements. The south elevation of the tower has a sash window with glazing bars below a stone lintel, a casement in the surround of a four-light double-chamfered mullion window, a blocked two-light mullion window, and again, two loopholes in the battlements. A notable feature on the north elevation is an external stepped stack with strapwork carving near the top, and an ashlar superstructure.

A south wing, likely from the 16th century, was added and extensively altered around 1680. Its west elevation presents four bays, with an ashlar porch featuring panelled Tuscan pilasters, a frieze, a swan-neck pediment carved with a chamfered panel depicting a fist holding a laurel wreath. The wing's south elevation showcases a sash window, and two tall window openings with double-chamfered surrounds, one with a casement and the other a sash window with 18 panes.

Inside the tower's ground floor, there is good quality bolection panelling dating to around 1680, alongside an imported fireplace to match. The ground floor of the south wing contains a fireplace with a moulded triangular soffit to the lintel, flanked by round-arched niches. A first-floor room at the south end of the wing features a 17th-century plaster ceiling decorated with a central circular motif, Tudor roses in the corners, and sections of cornice.