Pen-y-Lan Hall

The house is said to date from around 1690, but it was remodelled in 1830. It was purchased in 1854 by Thomas Hardcastle of the cotton manufacturing firm of Ormrod and Hardcastle. It was enlarged and altered later in the century, although most of these additions were demolished during the 1950s. On the edge of the estate James Ormrod built All Saints church in 1889. The dark red sandstone was quarried from his land near the River Dee and the wood furnishings were made from oak felled on the estate. Ormrod, addressing guests at the opening of the church only two months before his death, said "My dear friends, I wish to thank you all for your presence here today and to remind you that the…

Pen-y-Lan Hall is a two-storey, stuccoed and castellated Tudor-Gothic Revival-style building. The front of the house has an attic behind a parapet with symmetrical castellated chimney stacks at the ends of the building. The crenellated two-storey front porch projects from the facade and is two bays wide. The rear side of the hall is much the same as the front, albeit four bays wide with three castellated chimney stacks.