Swale Hall

SE 0498 23/50 4.9.52

GRINTON SWALE HALL LANE (north side) Grinton Swale Hall

II

Manor house. C17. Rendered rubble on boulder plinth, stone slate roof. 2-room central lobby-entry plan, with central rear stair turret, and cross-wing on left projecting only to rear. 2 storeys, 3 first floor windows. Central quoined doorway with moulded arris, triangular soffit and pedimented hood to lintel. Double-chamfered mullioned windows under birds-beak section drip moulds. On ground floor, 1 single-light window to left, and 2 formerly 4-light windows flanking doorway. On first floor, 2 formerly 4-light windows flanking a single-light window at slightly lower level over doorway. On left, bay of cross-wing has partly-blocked 4-light window on ground floor, pitching door under drip mould on first floor. Upstanding kneelers and saddleback copings to house overall. Central stack with classical cappings. Rear elevation with, on ground floor, a 2-light casement window to left of turret, a single-light window with stone surround in angle to left of turret, and 2-light mullioned window in turret; on first floor, 3 single-light windows to left of turret, 1 in turret and 1 to right of turret. On right, in gable-end of cross-wing, a 3-light window, now converted to 2 on each floor. Left return: large lateral stack to cross-wing. Right return: 2-light window to both floors and gable. Interior: 2 back-to- back fireplaces, both large, with straight heads, chamfered surrounds, and birds-beak section string course above. Stone stairs in straight flight in turret, now boarded over. The site of the medieval capital messuage of Bridlington Priory's manor of West Grinton. The family called Swale pretended to this manor after the Reformation. The house was in tenements in C18. 'VCH North Riding', 1.

Listing NGR: SE0411698433