Ingleby Manor

Ingleby Manor is a grade II* listed manor house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with substantial alterations from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It stands at Ingleby Greenhow.

The building is constructed of coursed squared stone, part herringbone-tooled, with a double Roman tile roof. It is rectangular on plan with two internal courtyards, the range between them probably originally an open hall. A tower stands to the north-west range. The house is of two storeys with partial attics and a cellar; the tower rises to three storeys. The footprint measures approximately 7 by 12 bays.

The north-west elevations feature a central tower of older stone, which has a 19th-century four-centred arched panelled double door set in a segmental-arched reveal. Above this is a 24-pane sash with tripartite lintel, followed by two-light chamfered mullion windows with 8-pane sashes and hoodmould. A string runs below an embattled parapet, with corniced ashlar stacks. Either side of the tower are three-bay wings with chamfered surrounds to 24-pane sashes. The roof is hipped with moulded kneelers, stone coping, ridges and finials. Two 17th-century dormers flank the tower, each with a one-light window, hoodmould, relief busts in the tympana of shaped pediments, and decorative finials.

The rear south-east elevations have quoined doorways at either end, that on the right with a hoodmould. Two former hollow-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds are visible, alongside inserted tripartite sash windows, one on the right with a monolithic lintel. A central buttress stands below a shouldered and corniced lateral stack. Six 12-pane sashes light the first floor.

The right return (south-west) elevation includes a 19th-century porch with a four-centred-arched doorway at bay 5. Windows are mostly four-pane sashes on the ground floor and 12-pane sashes above, with traces of chamfered mullion windows. The roof is swept, with two flat-roofed dormers at the right end. At the left end and centre, the tops of finialled gable ends of abutting ranges are visible.

The left return (north-east) elevation has various projecting sections. A near-central gabled porch features hoodmoulds to windows, moulded kneelers, hollow-moulded coping, a finial, and an inner chamfered, quoined, square-headed doorway. To its right is a doorway with an old board door, knocker and hoodmould. Near the right end stands a large shouldered stack flanked by gables, each with a window and hoodmould. Two similar stacks stand to the left. At the left end are tall quoined chamfered window surrounds, probably originally cross windows. Traces of other chamfered and chamfered mullion windows remain, though windows are now a variety of sashes, mostly small-paned. Five 20th-century flat-roofed dormers have been added.

Within the north-west courtyard, the tower range has two quoined chamfered doorways with hoodmoulds. On the upper storey is a three-light hollow-moulded mullion window with hoodmould and a single chamfered light. The south-west range features a 16th-century six-bay round-arched arcade with Tuscan columns, hoodmould and shields in spandrels linked by cornice. Within the arcade is a chamfered, quoined doorway. On the first floor, traces of three mullioned windows remain, with the central one now blocked and replaced by two tripartite sash windows. The north-east range has hollow-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds, of two and three lights on the ground floor, and on the first floor three windows of three lights, the left one altered. A central gable features a former similar two-light window, with string and crowsteps. The south-east range has former mullion windows with hoodmoulds and a similar two-light window in a finialled crow-stepped gable.

The interior reveals various 16th and 17th-century phases of building, indicated by the position of chamfered, quoined doorways and former windows. Spiral stone stairs are present. Original fixtures include 16th and 17th-century panelling, doors, beams, timber-frame partitioning and stone fireplaces. 18th-century panelling, doors, cupboards, panelled window reveals and fireplaces have been added. Below the tower is a four-centred chamfered arch of two orders. A probably 17th-century cellar of stone features vaults of thin red brick.

The entrance hall has a chequered black and white stone floor and a well-carved mid-19th-century Imperial stair executed in 17th-century style, decorated with animals, birds and cherubs in scroll form, caryatid end newels, and moulded handrail. A heavily-moulded cornice frames this space. A 19th-century ballroom and salon have marble fireplaces and decorative cornices.

The roofs over the ranges forming the north-west courtyard are particularly noteworthy. They feature arch-braced collared trusses, possibly reused, with chamfered members. The collars are high-set and cambered, and the principal rafters have arched soffits at the apexes forming pointed arches. These are seated for trenched purlins.

Ingleby Manor was occupied by the Eures family from the mid-16th century, and subsequently by the Foulis family from 1609 to the mid-19th century.