Abbey House

Abbey House is a custodian's house for Roche Abbey, built in the early 19th century for the Sandbeck estate of the Earl of Scarbrough. The building is constructed from coursed, squared magnesian limestone and features a Westmorland slate roof. It has an L-shaped plan with a wing at the rear right and is designed in the Gothick style. The house has two storeys and an attic, with three windows on the first floor.

The exterior includes a chamfered plinth and a central doorway with a decorative panelled door and a fanlight that has cusped glazing bars, all set within a moulded surround with a pointed arch. On the right side, there is a canted single-storey bay window with sashes that have glazing bars in chamfered pointed surrounds, topped by a band beneath an embattled parapet. The first bay window features a two-light casement with cusped wooden tracery in a pointed-arched surround.

The first floor has a band that connects to the bay window, with windows similar to those in the first bay. The eaves feature a band beneath the embattlements, with roll-moulded merlons and crocketed pinnacles at each end. The gable copings have end stacks. At the rear, the wing gable includes a three-light mullioned window on the ground floor and a pointed attic window, along with shaped kneelers, gable copings, and an end stack.

On the right return, there is a doorway into the wing similar to the front, with a window on the right and above the door as seen in the first bay. The interior features square newels and turned balusters in the contemporary staircase. The work at Roche Abbey was likely completed for the 6th Earl of Scarbrough during 1807 and 1808, which probably included this house. A similar structure at Yews Mill has a date of 1806 inscribed on its attached bridge.