Dalton Hall

Dalton Hall is a fortified manor house, dating back to the 15th century. It was significantly altered in the late 16th or early 17th century, and again in the early and mid-19th centuries, with 20th-century restoration work. The house is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, and has artificial stone slate roofs. It has a T-shaped plan, with two and three stories, and a facade of two bays, one bay, and one bay. A continuous ashlar plinth runs along the base, and quoins are visible on the three-story, three-bay tower located on the left, and to the right of the early 19th-century extension and the mid-19th-century service addition.

The left-hand section of the facade features a six-panel door with a fanlight featuring radial glazing bars, set within an ashlar doorcase with open pediment supported by cavetto brackets with paterae. To the left of the door is a three-light sash window. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars within ashlar surrounds, and there is an ashlar coping and end stack to the left.

The central tower has a ground-floor canted bay window built on a bowed ashlar base. The first and second floors have windows matching those on the left of the facade. The tower is topped with a hipped roof and end stacks, one of which is external. The right-hand section of the facade has a board door within an ashlar surround, and a casement window in an ashlar surround on each floor. There is also an ashlar coping and end stack to the right.

At the rear of the tower are quoins and a ground-floor French window in a double-chamfered surround. The first and second floors have two-light double-chamfered mullion windows with a hoodmould, and a similar blocked window without a hoodmould within the gable which has moulded coping. On the left return of the tower, there is the blocked surround of an original doorway. The right return of the tower features an external stack supported by three large corbels on the first floor, partially concealed by a lean-to scullery. Originally, the tower had two heated rooms on the first floor. At a later date a fourth story was added and a large fireplace was formed on the ground floor.