The Homestead

The Homestead is a former railway hotel, now a private house, built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of edge-tooled gritstone and ashlar, topped with a purple slate roof. The building has two storeys with a basement on the east side and features a three-by-three bay layout.

The south front, facing the road, has a central six-panel door flanked by narrow lights and a fanlight, all set within a recessed porch supported by Tuscan columns and rusticated pilasters, which hold up an entablature and cornice. Above the entrance is a lunette window in a projecting central panel. To the left of the entrance is a 16-pane sash window, and further left is another six-panel door with tie-stone jambs. The first floor features sash windows with glazing bars on either side, with the right window set higher. All windows have projecting sills and large lintels. The building has a projecting eaves band, cast-iron guttering, and a hipped roof with four evenly spaced banded stacks.

On the right return, the basement is made of rock-faced rusticated ashlar and has three six-pane sash windows. The raised ground and first floor feature a Giant Tuscan order of four attached columns that support an entablature, cornice, and blocking course. The raised ground floor has three full-height four-pane sashes with divided overlights, while the first floor has three sash windows with glazing bars. The east front of the building faced the railway line and was part of the Nidd station facade, which closed to passenger traffic in 1954.