Lacon Hall

Lacon Hall is a house dating from the early 17th century, which incorporates remains of a 16th-century timber frame. It has undergone alterations in the 19th century and extensive restoration in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed from coursed gritstone rubble and features a purple slate roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and consists of four bays. The exterior includes quoins and a plinth.

A 20th-century glazed door is set within a quoined, shallow triangular-headed surround with a deep lintel, previously located in a timber-framed gabled porch to the right of the first bay. There is also a door that has been inserted into what was originally a five-light window in the third bay. The windows throughout are recessed-chamfered mullions, with five lights on the ground floor and four lights above. There are single-light windows to the right of the first bay on the first floor and in the second bay on each floor. A first-floor string course with cyma moulding runs along the building, and the eaves have been raised above the first-floor windows. The gable copings are also notable.

The roof features a ridge stack located between the second and third bays, along with end stacks, one of which is external and has offsets and two flues. The rear of the building has no original openings and includes an attached single-storey former dairy, which now serves as an entrance block, positioned at right angles on the right side. The right return features a chamfered single-light window on the first floor to the left and two more in the attic storey.

Inside, the kitchen in the first bay has a very wide fireplace with a chamfered segmental stone arch and a spine beam with pyramidal stops. A staircase is built into this room. The second bay, likely the former hall, contains a large fireplace with plain chamfered jambs and a segmental arch, along with a spine beam similar to that in the kitchen. The third bay is unheated and may have been a service room; it now serves as a staircase hall and has a spine beam with a wide chamfer and plain stops. The fourth bay has a fireplace against the gable wall with a chamfered shallow triangular-headed surround.

On the first floor, three rooms have fireplaces styled similarly to that in the fourth bay. Extensive remains of the earlier timber frame are visible in the second and fourth bays, including posts, braces, and wall-plates with evenly spaced peg or dowel holes. The former porch, which had a beam dated 'W 1655 I', was dismantled during restoration, and the timbers were stolen.