53, Main Street

No. 53 on Main Street is a house that dates back to the early 18th century. Originally built as a single dwelling, it was divided into three cottages in the late 18th century, altered to two cottages in the mid-19th century, and restored to a single dwelling in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of coursed grey gritstone and features a graduated stone slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays, with quoins on the right side.

The front of the house includes a 20th-century glazed door located between the second and third bays, framed by a finely cut architrave with an entablature and cornice. There is a similar door in a plain surround between the first and second bays, with what is likely a blocked door to the left now serving as a window. Each bay on the ground floor has a window with plain sawn stone surrounds and 20th-century frames, while the first floor has three similar windows. The gable ends feature slightly bulbous kneelers and copings. A fine corniced ridge stack is located on the right, with banded plain stacks along the ridge between the first and second bays, and between the second and third bays.

Inside, the original entrance leads directly into a living room, which is situated behind the main central living room fireplace. This fireplace is notably wide and cambered, with a lintel made of three parts and a central keystone, designed to imitate voussoirs. A stone newel staircase is positioned against the rear wall of this room, with the original partitions having been removed. The building's history reflects a pattern of changing use typical for Grassington, having started as a 17th-century farmhouse known as Town Fold, then divided to accommodate lead-miners' families, altered again to house one cottage, and serving as a Post Office and cobbler's shop by the early 20th century before returning to a single house in the mid-20th century, briefly known as Sunnyside.