Ackworth Grange

Ackworth Grange is a house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, built on an earlier site. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a slate roof and has a rectangular plan. The building is two storeys high and features three symmetrical bays, with full-height bows on either side of the central entrance. The central doorway is round-headed and has double doors, a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and a pedimented Tuscan doorcase adorned with mutules. Above the doorway is a 12-pane sashed window, while the flanking bows contain tripartite sashed windows on both floors, featuring flat-faced mullions, with 12-pane sashes in the centre and 8-pane sashes on the sides. The building has a modillioned cornice and a low blocking course, with a low-pitched hipped roof and side-wall chimneys.

The left return wall has two windows on each floor, all of which are blind except for the upper left window, and the cornice continues around the building. At the rear is a larger service element that predates the front range and is three storeys tall, matching the height of the front. This section has a doorway and two arched windows, likely from early 19th-century alterations, as well as boxed sashed windows on all floors.

Inside, there is a fine cantilevered stone staircase that is half-turned with landings, featuring scrolled soffits on the steps, iron balusters with foliated panels, and a ramped handrail with a wreathed curtail. The interior also includes six-panel doors with reeded architraves.

Historically, the house was known as "Briars Flatts" in the late 18th century and was acquired by the Roman Catholic Tempest family from Broughton Hall near Skipton in 1836, after which it became known as Ackworth Grange. It previously housed a Catholic chapel designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in 1842, which was demolished in 1966.