Blubberhouses Hall, Now Venture House

Blubberhouses Hall, now known as Venture House, is a house built in the mid-19th century for Lady Frankland, possibly designed by E B Lamb. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and four bays, with a two-storey gabled porch in the third bay and a corbelled first-floor gable in the first bay, all designed in an Elizabethan style.

The south front includes a chamfered doorcase leading to the porch and a central four-light chamfered mullion window, both situated below relieving arches. To the left, there is a bay window with three lights, flanked by lower single lights, all beneath a stone roof. Above, there are two two-light chamfered mullion windows and a similar three-light window to the left, again all positioned below relieving arches. The right side of the porch features a projecting quoined stack with three tall flues, while there is a single tall stack to the left of the porch and a tall gable stack to the left.

On the right return, there is a ground-floor bay window with a four-light chamfered mullion window, a similar three-light window above it, and a further two-light window in the gable. Historically, the hall served as a shooting box for Lord Walsingham, the grandson of Lady Frankland, who was also the patron of St Andrews Church.