Swinden Hall

Swinden Hall is a house with a rear wing dating back to approximately 1600, and the main part built in 1657. The hall is constructed of rubble stone with dressed quoins and a stone slate roof. The building has a near-symmetrical plan, with a three-storey, three-bay facade centred around a gabled porch. A Tudor arched doorway, featuring a studded door and hoodmould, is inscribed with the date "1657 MAY THE 16 EW and HW."

The ground floor has a six-light window with a King mullion on either side of the porch. Above this are a five-light window and a stepped three-light window, all double chamfered with hoodmoulds. The porch roof matches the rest of the facade and features a three-light window on the first floor. All windows have early 19th-century cast iron lozenge glazing. External stacks with offsets are located on the gable ends; a two-light, double-chamfered window is on the left gable, and a three-light window is on the rear, where there is also a blocked doorway. The front elevations show some alterations, with changed windows to the kitchen and morning room, several modern windows with flat-faced mullions, and some disturbed stonework.

A later connecting wing (indicated by a straight joint on the right gable) leads to the old dairy, which served as the previous farmhouse dating back to approximately 1600. This two-storey, three-bay dairy has a small granary extension over an outhouse to the left. The ground floor has a two-light window with an ovolo mullion to the left of a doorway with a decorative Craven lintel, and a single-light window to the right, all beneath a continuous dripmould. This pattern is repeated on the upper floor. Eaves are supported by stone brackets. A Tudor arched doorway and plain windows are located on the left side. The rear elevation has three-light and two-light windows.

The interior has been altered, including a likely late 19th/early 20th-century staircase. The morning room (formerly the kitchen) has a large fireplace with a hollow roll mould and hinge lintel, and a cross beam with a double roll mould. The drawing room has a segmental arched fireplace with thirteen voussoir stones and hollow chamfered detailing. Plastered cross-beams are also present. The dining room features a central plaster ceiling with a diamond design and relief strawberries, though the beam is plastered over. The main bedroom has a plaster overmantel with strawberries, acorns, and fleur de lys motifs, large chamfered beams on stone corbels which are now plastered. The upper floor displays three large King post trusses, one of which has been altered, with a smaller King post truss in the dairy.