 A picture in Oakley's 1910 edition of "In Olden Days" shows it as a complete building.However, the text of a 1920s edition describes it as "a ruined hall", and in fact the hall was in such poor condition in the 1840s, when it was used as a public house, that it had its licence removed because of the dangerous condition and decay of the building.Sam Garside who was born in the hall in 1917 moved out in the 1939.