Tranby Croft

House, circa 1874, built for Arthur Wilson. Constructed in white brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs.

The principal front is of 3 storeys arranged in 9 bays with a balanced elevation. The centre 3 bays break forward, while the left bay rises as a 4-stage tower. A projecting porch to the left contains a double-leaf round-headed glazed and panelled door in a moulded round-headed opening with an impost band, flanked by pilasters. Shallow round-headed niches flank the door opening. End pilasters support a cornice with low blocking course.

The ground floor bays contain: to bay 3, a 2-light casement in an architrave with segmental head; bay 4 has a two-pane round-headed sash in an architrave; bay 5 is a square bay window with a central 2-light casement flanked by 2-pane sashes, with end pilasters, frieze and balustraded parapet; bay 6 has a round-headed 2-pane sash in an architrave; bays 7 and 9 contain similar square-headed 2-pane sashes with a canted bay window between them rising through the full height of the house, with 2-pane sashes to each side. Bay 1 has a canted bay window with 2-pane sashes under a balustraded parapet, and bay 2 has paired narrow 2-pane sashes in an architrave. A first-floor band and sill band run across the elevation.

The first floor features 2-pane sashes in architraves to all bays, that to the centre bay with a segmental pediment. The second floor has a sill band to the centre 3 bays, with bay 1 containing a 4-pane sash in a segmental-headed architrave, bay 2 having paired narrow 2-pane sashes in an architrave, and 2-pane sashes in architraves to all other bays. Bracketed sills project to windows in bays 1-3, 7 and 9. The eaves are oversailing on a modillion cornice, with axial stacks and a hipped roof. The tower features a third-floor band and a 2-pane sash in a keyed round-headed architrave with an impost band on a bracketed sill. A band and cornice support a balustraded parapet with abutments to the angles.

The garden front is 3 storeys with 4 irregularly-spaced bays. Bay 1 rises as a semicircular bay window through 2 storeys, and bay 4 has a canted bay window also through 2 storeys, both beneath an impost band. Bay 1 contains five 2-light windows with overlights to the round bay window, bay 2 has similar paired windows under segmental heads, bay 3 has a similar single window, and bay 4 has 3 similar windows in round-headed openings with ashlar heads. A first-floor band and sill band run across. The first floor features 2-pane sashes in architraves throughout, with cornice and balustraded parapet to each bay. The second floor has tripartite 2-pane sashes to right and left, with single 2-pane sashes to bays 2 and 3. All windows sit in architraves on bracketed sills. A modillion eaves cornice, axial stacks and hipped roof complete the composition. The recessed tower to the right contains 2-pane sashes to all 4 stages: round-headed to the ground floor, square-headed in a pilastered surround under a floating cornice to the first floor, segmental-headed to the second floor, and round-headed in a keyed architrave to the third floor. Bands run around from the main front, and a stack rises on the rear wall.

The interior is characterised by lavish and costly decoration of good quality in an approximately Neoclassical style. The entrance porch is covered in elaborate plasterwork extending to the backs of the doors, with radiator boxes flanking the doors, fitted with cast-iron foliate panels carrying white marble benches. The doors into the large stairhall are filled with patterned and coloured glass. The stair itself and the balcony running around the hall at first-floor level are late 19th-century additions, richly carved with many references to the owner's occupation as Master of the Holderness Hunt.