Abbey House

MALTBY ROCHE ABBEY SK58NW 7/51 Abbey House GV II Custodian's house to Roche Abbey. Early C19. For the Sandbeck estate of the Earl of Scarbrough. Coursed, squared, magnesian limestone, Westmorland slate roof. L-shaped plan having wing to rear right. In Gothick style. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows to 1st floor. Chamfered plinth. 2 steps to central doorway having decorative panelled door and fanlight with cusped glazing bars in moulded surround with pointed arch. Canted single-storey bay window on right has sashes with glazing bars in chamfered pointed surrounds, band beneath embattled parapet. Bay-1 window has 2-light casement with cusped wooden tracery in pointed-arched surround. 1st floor: band linking with that of bay window, windows as bay 1. Eaves band beneath embattlements with roll- moulded merlons and with crocketed pinnacle at each end. Gable copings with end stacks. Rear: wing gable has 3-light mullioned window to ground floor and pointed attic window, shaped kneelers, gable copings and end stack. Right return: doorway into wing as front with window on right and over door as bay 1. Interior: square newels and turned balusters to contemporary staircase. Work was done at Roche Abbey for the 6th Earl of Scarbrough during the years 1807/08 (Beastall, p116) which probably included this house. A comparable structure surviving at Yews Mill (q.v.) has a date of 1806 inscribed on its attached bridge. T. W. Beastall, A North Countrv Estate, 1974.

Listing NGR: SK5426189869