Mount Grace House

NORTH YORKSHIRE HAMBLETON 5337 EAST HARLSEY A19 SE 49 NW (east side, off) 2/1 Mount Grace House 31.3.70 II* GV House, formerly gatehouse to Mount Grace Priory. C15, C17, restored and extended in 1901. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, graduated stone slate and pantile roofs. To right is C17 part, dated 1654, of 2 storeys with attics and 7 bays. To left is C15 part, 2 bays with scattered fenestration. C17 part has offset angle buttresses to right and between bays 1 and 2. To centre is a full height porch, board door inside, doorway has 4-centred arch with gabled hoodmould, date inscribed "1654". First-floor band, 3-light mullion-and-transom first-floor window, with hoodmould, eaves band, embattled parapet with ball finials. All windows are 3-light mullion-and-transom windows with hoodmoulds, those to ground floor slightly larger than those above. 3 right-hand bays have moulded stone cornice, above bay a C20 dormer. Other bays have embattled parapets. Above porch and between 2 left-hand bays are gabled dormers with ball finials, that to left has 3-light mullion window, that to right has 6-light sash. C15 left part: 3 offset angle buttresses. To right is shouldered headed doorway, above a 2-light mullion-and-transom window, to its right a 4-centred-arched single-light window. Other windows are single-light chamfered openings, apart from that on left of first floor which is of 2 lights. Above four C20 dormers. 3 ridge stacks. End stacks, that to left a large external stack with embattled top, others have plinths, bands, 2 shafts and moulded cornices. Rear: much altered in 1901. Interior altered.

Listing NGR: SE4485498475