Crakehall Hall And Garden Walls

Crakehall Hall and garden walls are a house and garden walls dating from the early 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof. It has a symmetrical front with three storeys and seven bays, along with a large three-storey wing at the rear. The house has an ashlar plinth and chamfered quoins.

There are three steps leading up to a central half-glazed door with a three-pane overlight, situated in a late 18th-century stone Doric porch that has two pairs of columns on plinths, a fluted frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows on the first two floors are sash windows with glazing bars, while the second floor features six-pane sashes. All windows are adorned with moulded architraves that include keystones, and the ground floor windows have a continuous sill band. The building also has a moulded eaves band and a hipped roof with ridge stacks at the rear.

On either side of the house, there are brick quadrant walls that are stone-coped and ramped up at the outer ends to plain stone piers topped with domes. Each wall features a central four-panel door set in a rusticated stone architrave with a double keystone. A high stone rubble wall with flat stone coping extends from the right-hand pier, forming a boundary to the east side of the green.

Inside, the entrance hall has a dado rail with a Vitruvian scroll motif. The doors to the rooms on either side have eared architraves with pediments. There is a large open-well staircase with bulb and umbrella balusters, and a Venetian stair window with Ionic columns. The right-hand front room features a Kent style overmantel with a mirror surmounted by a broken pediment that has a shell motif at the centre, along with early 18th-century fielded panelling, a dado rail, and a dentilled cornice.