Thorp Perrow Hall

Thorp Perrow Hall is a large house dating from the early 18th century, with encasement around 1800. It underwent later work by John Foss and alterations by Walter Brierley. The building is constructed of rubble stone, ashlar, and cement rendering, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. It features one, two, and three storeys across 11 by 5 bays.

The main front has a central section of nine bays that rises three storeys, flanked by two-storey end bays that project forward, creating a 1:3:1 bay arrangement with bowed central bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars set in ashlar surrounds. The front features a cornice and parapet. The central nine bays include double six-panel doors framed by plain pilasters and a moulded archivolt, all sheltered by a later 19th-century one-storey Ionic portico, which is a quatrestyle in antis. Above the doors is a tripartite sash window with pilasters and columns that support an entablature adorned with a swagged frieze and a triangular pediment.

There are bands at the first and second floors, with sashes featuring glazing bars on the ground and first floors, and six-pane sashes on the second floor, all within ashlar architraves. Each end bay has a Venetian window on the ground floor set in an arched recess with a fan-reeded head, supported by pillars with reeded capitals that hold up an entablature featuring animal heads and swags on the frieze. On the first floor, there is a tripartite window with central sashes that have glazing bars, supported by pillars and a frieze with paterae and a cornice. The central three-bay pediment displays a coat of arms, and the building has a hipped roof with ridge stacks.

At the rear, there is a Venetian stair window with pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. To the right, a lower one-storey wing features a central round-headed board door, surrounded by stone plinths, pilasters, consoles with paterae, a reeded frieze, a cornice, and a triangular pediment.

Inside, the ballroom on the east side of the house showcases fine plasterwork in the style of James Wyatt, along with an imperial staircase featuring wrought-iron balusters. The back stair leading to the earlier house has splat balusters, and some bedrooms contain panelling and fireplaces dating from around 1715.