Hood Grange Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the 17th century, with a likely earlier wing and 19th-century alterations. The farmhouse is constructed from coursed squared stone and coursed rubble, with a pantile roof. It is two storeys and an attic, comprising two bays with a gabled cross-wing projecting to the right. Quoins are present. The two left bays feature recessed chamfered mullion windows of two lights on each floor to the left, and a three-light window to the right, the latter deepened in the 19th century. A 20th-century four-panel door with an over-light, beneath a pitched canopy, is located on the far right at the junction with the wing, and is flanked by quoins.

The cross-wing has 19th-century chamfered mullion windows of three lights to the ground floor, two lights to the first floor, and one light to the gable. The ends of the timber purlins are visible in the gable. A small roof skylight is present. A brick ridge stack sits over the left bay of the wing, with a stone stack at the right side.

At the rear, the main range has a rubble plinth. A door has replaced a former window opening on the left side, and a three-light recessed chamfered mullion window is located to the right on each floor. To the far right is a double-chamfered cross-window, and above that an oculus with sunken upper spandrels and a hoodmould. Two brick courses are visible at the eaves. The wing has a blocked window and a three-light side-sliding sash window under a wooden lintel to the ground floor. The ends of four iron tie-rods are visible. On the first floor, a blocked doorway is present, and the gable has been rebuilt with a two-light side-sliding sash window. On the right return of the wing, a first-floor window is flanked by the drops of a hoodmould.

Inside the main range, a staircase features 17th-century moulded splat balusters with heart-shaped cut-outs, and roof trusses with curved struts to the purlins. The wing, of three bays, contains three large scantling cross-beams and four closely spaced collared principal rafter roof trusses. The farmhouse occupies the site of a Cistercian house founded in 1138, which was taken over by the black canons of Newburgh Priory when the Cistercians relocated to Old Byland in 1143.