Arkleby Hall And Flanking Walls

Arkleby Hall is a farmhouse dating from around 1740, which incorporates an earlier house built in 1725. It features the Thompson coat-of-arms above the front entrance. The exterior is finished with incised cement render, painted raised quoins, and a cornice, all set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has coped gables with kneelers, along with yellow brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with five bays of double span.

The entrance includes a top-glazed panelled door framed by a bolection architrave and a fluted plaster doorcase, topped with a large segmental pediment that encloses the coat-of-arms. The windows are sash style, set in painted stone architraves, with Yorkshire-sash attic windows in painted stone surrounds. The short, shaped flanking walls are an integral part of the house, with the left wall featuring a griffin holding the coat-of-arms. The rear wall has a round-headed two-light staircase window and small attic windows.

Inside, there is a datestone inscribed with "G & J.T. 1725" (for Gustavus and Johanna Thompson), which includes carvings of bears and men on horseback that do not appear to have any armorial significance. There are 20th-century extensions and farm buildings to the left that are not of interest.