Trappes Hall

Trappes Hall is a house dating from around 1686, now divided into two separate residences. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and has a nearly square shape, featuring a ridge that runs north-south and large gabled dormers on each side, giving it a cruciform appearance. The building has two storeys and a large attic. The upper floors have many double chamfered stone mullion windows, mostly with two lights, although these upper windows lack mullions. On the north side, there is a 10-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor to the left, along with the remnants of what may have been a near-central doorway. A 19th-century doorway is located to the right. The south front features a similar ground floor window to the left, which has been slightly damaged by the addition of another door at the corner, and another window on the first floor to the right. A very large axial stack is present.

Inside, the house has been subdivided, likely in the 19th century. Originally, it probably had a lobby entry on the north side leading to a housebody and parlour on either side of the stack, with an additional room beyond each of these. The main room, or housebody, features an arched fireplace flanked by two round-headed doorways, each now leading to a cupboard, one of which is likely the former lobby. The parlour has a smaller round-headed fireplace with a stopped chamfer. The remainder of the house was not inspected.

Christopher Trapps of Nidd married into a Carleton family in 1686, and the house is a substantial example of a double-pile plan.