Swale Hall

Swale Hall is a manor house dating from the 17th century, constructed from rendered rubble on a boulder plinth, topped with a stone slate roof. It features a two-room central lobby-entry plan, a central rear stair turret, and a cross-wing on the left that only projects to the rear. The building is two storeys high and has three windows on the first floor.

The central doorway is quoined and has a moulded arris, a triangular soffit, and a pedimented hood above the lintel. The ground floor has a single-light window to the left and two formerly four-light windows flanking the doorway. On the first floor, there are two formerly four-light windows beside a single-light window that is slightly lower than the doorway. The left side of the cross-wing has a partly-blocked four-light window on the ground floor and a pitching door under a drip mould on the first floor. The house features upstanding kneelers and saddleback copings throughout. A central stack is topped with classical cappings.

The rear elevation includes a two-light casement window to the left of the turret, a single-light window with a stone surround in the angle to the left of the turret, and a two-light mullioned window in the turret on the ground floor. The first floor has three single-light windows to the left of the turret, one in the turret, and one to the right of the turret. The right gable-end of the cross-wing has a three-light window that has been converted to two on each floor. The left return features a large lateral stack on the cross-wing, while the right return has two-light windows on both floors and in the gable.

Inside, there are two large back-to-back fireplaces with straight heads, chamfered surrounds, and a birds-beak section string course above. The stone stairs in the turret are now boarded over. Historically, this site was the medieval capital messuage of Bridlington Priory's manor of West Grinton. The Swale family claimed this manor after the Reformation, and the house was divided into tenements in the 18th century.