Earby Hall

Earby Hall is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 18th century, with a late 17th century rear wing. It is constructed of coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features stone slate roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main front range being two storeys and a loft, comprising four bays, and a three-storey wing to the rear left.

The front elevation includes an ashlar plinth and chamfered rusticated ashlar quoins. In the third bay, there is a 19th century four-panel door set within an eared ashlar architrave that has bases, a pulvinated frieze, and a pediment. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed in raised ashlar architraves. Between the second and third first-floor windows, there is a 20th century inserted oculus within an architrave. The roof features shaped kneelers and ashlar coping, with ashlar end stacks.

At the rear, there is a 20th century single-storey flat-roofed porch with leaved six-panel doors, along with a round-arched landing window from the 18th century that has an ashlar surround with Tuscan pilasters and a moulded archivolt topped with a tripartite keystone. The left return of the rear wing shows quoins to the right, a blocked doorway, and paired 16-pane sash windows on each floor, all in ashlar surrounds with impost blocks. It also features a cavetto kneeler, ashlar coping, and an end stack to the right. The right return of the front range has a first-floor sash window with glazing bars in a plain ashlar surround and a boarded loft opening with a double-chamfered ashlar surround.

Inside the front range, there are two-panel doors and a dogleg staircase with thick turned balusters and a heavy swept handrail. The first-floor saloon had a fireplace at each end. In the rear wing, there is a stone staircase with moulded nosing, now deeply worn, which originally extended up to the second floor. The first-floor joists are of rounded section, supporting very wide butt-jointed floorboards. The house served as a "London School" in the late 18th century and again in the mid-19th century.