Wydale Hall

House, now a Diocesan conference centre. It dates back to the 18th century, though it is believed to have origins in the 17th century. The house was extended and altered in 1877 for the Cayley family, and further extended and altered in 1904 by Sidney Kitson, when acquired by Mr H Illingworth. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with tooled quoins and dressings, and has slate roofs. The plan is irregular.

The garden front has a three-storey, three-window arrangement to the original part of the building, and a two-storey projecting wing to the right with a two-storey, five-window canted bay at the end. A single-storey, single-window extension is to the left. The original central entrance to the main building was blocked in the 19th century and is now located under a half-hexagonal roofed bay. A glazed garden door is situated in a loggia of Ionic columns to the right, in the re-entrant angle of the extension wing. The windows are largely 12-pane sashes to the ground and first floors, with an unequal 9-pane sash to the second floor, flanked by 20th-century replacement casements. All windows have keyed raised surrounds. A parapet with recessed panels obscures the roof. The extension wing has ground-floor sashes extending to ground level to the bay window, and the remaining windows are 12-pane sashes to the ground floor and unequal 9-pane sashes to the first floor with raised surrounds. There is a modillion eaves cornice to the bay and a plain coped parapet above.

The entrance front features a two-storey, two-window projecting cross gable to the left and a two-storey, three-window front to the right. A single-storey glazed entrance lobby with an Ionic portico contains a panelled door beneath a patterned overlight. The cross gable has unequal 9-pane sashes to the ground and first floors, and a keyed oculus in the tympanum. Carved drops of fruit separate windows on both floors. Sill and lintel bands are present on both floors, and a fasciated keystone is above the centre ground-floor window. A raked modillion cornice sits beneath the pediment.

Interior features include surviving 18th-century panelled shutters in the ground-floor front window to the right of the original entrance, and in all three first-floor front windows. Plasterwork, originating from Robert Adams moulds and introduced during the 1904 alterations, covers the ceilings of the main ground-floor rooms. The three ground-floor rooms in the 1877 and 1904 extensions also contain 18th-century fireplaces and overmantels with enriched surrounds, two of which contain integral paintings.