Hood Grange Farmhouse

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SE 58 SW 2/3 HOOD GRANGE A170 (south side, off) Hood Grange Farmhouse

(formerly listed as Hood Grange and outbuildings)

20.6.66

GV II

Farmhouse. C17 with probably earlier wing and C19 alterations. Coursed squared stone and coursed rubble; pantile roof. Two storeys and attic, two bays with gabled cross-wing projecting on right. Quoins. The two left bays have recessed chamfered mullion windows of two lights on each floor to left and three lights on right, the latter deepended c19. On far right at junction with wing is C20 four-panel door with over-light under angled canopy and quoins on right.

Wing: C19 chamfered mullion windows of three lights to ground floor, two lights to first floor and one light to gable; ends of timber purlins visible in gable. Small roof skylight. Brick ridge stack over left bay; stone stack to right side of wing.

Rear: main range has: rubble plinth; door on left in former window opening; a three-light recessed chamfered mullion window to right on each floor; to far right a double-chamfered cross-window and above it an oculus with sunken upper spandrels and hoodmould; two brick courses at eaves.

Wing has: a blocked window and a three-light side-sliding sash under wood lintel to ground floor; ends of four iron tie-rods; on first floor a blocked doorway; the gable rebuilt with a two-light side-sliding sash. Right return (wing): on right, first-floor window is flanked by drops of a hoodmould.

Interior: Main range has stair with C17 moulded splat balusters having heart-shaped cut-outs, and roof trusses with curved struts to purlins; wing, of three bays, has three large scantling cross-beams and four collared principal rafter roof trusses set close together. The farmhouse is on the site of a Cistercian house founded in 1138 and taken over by the black canons of Newburgh Priory when the Cistercians moved to Old Byland in 1143 (Grainge, pp 202-3).

W Grainge, The Vale of Mowbray: A Historical and Topographical Account of Thirsk and its Neighbourhood (1859).

Listing NGR: SE5042482304