Colburn Hall

Colburn Hall is a manor house, incorporating elements from the 17th century and later additions. A range was built in 1662 and adjoins an earlier structure at a right angle. The construction is of rubble, with a stone slate roof. The building has a T-shaped layout, two storeys, and a rhythm of one window on the first floor, with a further range to the rear and an outshut. Quoins are present.

The later range features a central oak board door with a glazed panel set within a slightly-chamfered ashlar surround with a hood mould. Above the door is a carved stone bearing the coat of arms of the D’Arcy family, originating from 1621 and previously located at Sedbury Hall near Gilling West. Sixteen-pane sash windows are visible, featuring pointed-arch glazing bars to the upper row of panes and deep lintels. To the left, evidence remains of the stone surrounds for two tall, narrow windows as depicted in Samuel Buck’s sketch.

The gable end of the left range displays a 20th-century four-light casement window under a segmental-pointed relieving arch on the ground floor, and a sixteen-pane sash window with a deep lintel, set within a wider opening of quoined jambs under a segmental-pointed relieving arch, on the first floor. A two-light, double-chamfered mullion window is now blocked in the gable. The roof has shaped kneelers (with earlier forms on the west range), ashlar copings, and 20th-century replacement finials. Stacks are situated between the first and second bays and at the right end of the elevation.

The rear of the later range shows two two-light chamfered mullion windows within the outshut, the one to the right lacking a mullion. The left return of the earlier range features a blocked first-floor doorway at the right end, a corniced stack rising from a first-floor fireplace towards the left, and another stack extending from a ground-floor fireplace towards the right. The right return of the later range reveals an older roofline, lower than the present one, as indicated in Samuel Buck’s sketch. Kneelers are dated "16" and "62", likely reused when the roof was raised.

Inside, a ground-floor room in the right range features a late 18th-century basket-arched ashlar surround for a kitchen range, ogee-stop-chamfered cross-beams, and some chamfered joists. In the central ground-floor room, ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams are present. The left range has rougher chamfered cross-beams, and a bible box cavity is visible in the east wall of the front room. The hall forms part of a medieval complex that includes the former Courthouse and is depicted in Samuel Buck’s Yorkshire Sketchbook.