Esk Hall

Esk Hall is a small country house situated off the Eskdaleside-cum-Ugglebarnby coach road near Sleights, built in the early to mid-18th century and subsequently remodelled in the early 19th century and further altered around 1870. It was likely originally built for Richard Burdett and later modified for the Coates and Corner families. The main house is constructed of herringbone-tooled sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with extensions of tooled sandstone, and has a stone slate roof to the main house and a slate roof to the extension wing.

The house is arranged around a central stairhall plan, with two rooms deep, and incorporates an early 19th-century service wing to the right and a later 19th-century front porch and rear alterations. The front elevation features a two-storey and attic centre bay flanked by two-storey projecting, canted bays, which are connected by a single-storey, pilastered porch. A two-storey, two-window wing sits to the right. The central panelled door is set within a porch with a keyed segment-arched hood on moulded brackets. Tall, narrow sash windows are flanked by keyed round arches containing low-relief monograms of Edward Corner within raised oval panels. The windows have moulded sills and impost bands. A keyed Venetian window with sashes is located on the first floor above the porch, and a square sash window with a plain lintel and sill is in the attic. The flanking bays have tripartite large-pane sashes on both floors. The wing windows are 12-pane sashes with tooled sills and lintels. A moulded eaves cornice sits beneath a plain parapet with flat coping, which breaks back over the main house's centre bay. Double-span end stacks rise from both ranges of the main roof and the wing has a hipped roof. The garden front is two storeys high with four bays, with the right-end bay cross-gabled. All windows on this front are 19th and 20th century replacements. A cavetto moulded eaves course is present and coped gables feature plain kneelers. The left and right returns display a coped parapet, raked up and flattened in the centre to disguise the double-span roof.

The interior includes an open-string, dogleg staircase with shaped treadends, stick balusters, and a moulded handrail, which wreathes around the newel at the foot. The staircase rises to the attic, where the landing rail reuses turned balusters with square knops. Similar balusters are re-used in the subsidiary staircase in the wing. The staircase is divided from the entrance hall by a wide segmental arch on panelled pilasters. On the first floor, both rear rooms retain bolection-moulded overmantel panelling.