Manesty

Manesty is a villa constructed between 1905 and 1907 in Saltburn, near Marske, and designed by Cackett and Burns Dick of Newcastle upon Tyne for Major HR French. It was partially rebuilt in 1907 after a fire. The building is constructed of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, timber-framed porches and rear window gables, and a roof of French tiles with brick chimneys. It is built in a Vernacular Revival style and has a U-plan.

The villa is two storeys high with an irregular five-window front and a right extension beneath a catslide roof. The front features projecting end wings, with a wide, gabled porch on the left side containing a partly-glazed door and side lights, and a three-light transom stair window above, under a gable with a small decorative diamond panel. To the right of the porch are a small single light and a two-light window, and below the single light is a low two-light window. The left wing has four-light windows on each floor, with the upper window rising above the eaves. The right wing incorporates boarded, partially glazed garage doors, and a similar arrangement in a single-light diagonal link to the main elevation, along with a swept catslide roof extension. The inner return of the left wing has a single ground floor and two-light first-floor window. The inner return of the right wing exhibits a single high window. All windows are casements, those within the stone walls have flat stone lintels and thin wood sills. A small two-light window is set within a wide triangular dormer to the right of the porch gable. There are two transverse ridge chimneys on the main roof, one on the right wing, and a stack with offsets rising from the eaves of the left wing’s inner return. The rear elevation has a three-light window breaking the eaves in the first bay, with a blank ground floor, and a timber-framed third bay with a glazed door. Flanking this bay are two gabled bays, the left of which projects a square bay window on the ground floor. Wany timber struts to eaves are visible from a post truss and tie beam.

The interior features a short flight of steps within a panelled passage leading to an entrance hall; an open well staircase with stick and pierced balusters and inlay work to the second newel. In 1919, Mr Hutchinson, who lived in an adjacent house then known as Manesty, purchased the property and renamed it from The Homestead.