Manor Stead And House Adjoining To North

This is a hall house, originally built in the early 16th century (before 1517) by William Grindal. It was later subdivided and remodelled in the 17th century, with an outshut added to the rear in the 19th or early 20th century. The front elevation was altered in 1983/84. The building is constructed of coursed squared rubble with quoins, now pebble-dashed, and has a 45° graduated slate roof with stone copings. An original rendered mid-chimney is present, along with a 17th-century projecting stepped stone chimney to the rear of the hall.

The Manor Stead portion of the building is three bays wide. The original centre doorway has a chamfered surround with a round head. Stone-mullioned windows with segment-headed lights are also present; two lights of the ground floor windows on the right are original, while the others are 19th or early 20th-century replacements, with one small window above the original door likely re-used. The south return has original stone windows, a three-light window on the ground floor and a two-light window above. The north gable retains an original stone-mullioned window with two segment-headed lights in a chamfered surround, under a hoodmould. Most other windows were inserted in 1983/84, with the exception of a first-floor window at the rear. A full-height stair turret projects to the left. A 17th-century chamfered door surround with a four-centred head was moved in 1983 from the extreme right of the front, where a blocked doorway and external stair rebate once existed.

Internally, the Manor Stead retains original roof trusses of king-post construction. The hall roof has alternating queen strut and 'A' frame trusses, with moulded brackets, and originally extended across three bays open to the roof. A moulded four-centred fireplace arch on a rear ground-floor wall has the same mason's mark as the 17th-century door surround. Grisaille wall paintings, including heraldic friezes depicting Dacre supporters, date to 1570-83. Fragments of a large, likely traceried, window remain, built into a later exterior wall above the frieze. A party wall originally contained a service door at the left, and a corresponding door above led to a two-bay first-floor room or gallery. The first floor was extended and a fireplace inserted after subdivision in the 17th century, with a stone newel stair added for internal access. A later attic floor and newel stair were also added. Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born here in 1517 or 1519.