Hackness Grange Country Hotel

Hackness Grange Country Hotel is a country house, now a hotel, dating to the mid-19th century with a late-19th-century extension. It was originally built for the Johnstone family. The house is constructed of finely-tooled sandstone on a chamfered plinth, featuring sandstone ashlar dressings, chamfered quoins, and hammer-dressed sandstone to the extension. It has slate roofs.

The entrance front is a two-storey, three-bay design, with a full-height projecting porch at the centre. To the right is a two-storey, five-bay extension, with one bay gabled and projecting. The entrance doorway has six panels and is set within a partially rusticated doorcase of splayed round arch on panelled pilaster jambs. A corniced porch sits above the door, supported by enriched brackets. The ground-floor windows are segment-arched sashes in eared surrounds with fasciated keystones and recessed panels below the sills. First-floor sashes are contained within round-arched architraves on square section columns with imposts and keystones. A moulded first-floor cornice breaks beneath the window, forming secondary sills on fluted consoles. The overhanging eaves have mutules to a shallow hipped roof. The extension’s entrance door has four recessed panels with a patterned overlight, framed by an architrave with a moulded cornice doorhood. The end bay to the right has a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor, and the remaining ground-floor windows have 12-pane sashes. The first-floor windows are unequal 9-pane sashes, with those to the left of the end bay positioned beneath a blind arcade of round arches. A round-arched sash is located in the gable end of the end bay. Ground- and first-floor windows have stone sills with recessed panels below, and plain lintels. A raised first-floor band is present.

The garden front is a two-storey, four-bay design. An off-centre, gabled projection features three grouped first-floor windows above a single-storey, three-window canted bay. On each side is a single-window bay, with a replacement French door to the left. A single-window fourth bay is set back at the end left. All windows are sashes. Window surrounds and architectural details mirror those of the entrance front.

The rear elevation features paired round-headed, bordered sashes to the left of the centre. Inside, there is an open-string, quarter-turn staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade and moulded, raked handrail, which is wreathed at the foot around a turned newel post. The rich, late-19th-century classical decoration has largely been retained. The house forms an integral part of the landscaped setting at the head of Forge Valley.