The Justice Room Approximately 5 Metres South Of Kildwick Hall

The Justice Room is a carriage house with a room above, located approximately 5 metres south of Kildwick Hall on the north side of Grange Road. Built in the late 17th to early 18th century, probably for Henry Currer, it has subsequently been altered in the 19th century and is now used as a restaurant.

The building is constructed in coursed gritstone and ashlar with a graduated stone slate roof. It is 2 storeys tall, measuring 3 by 2 bays. The ground floor features ashlar angle pilasters, while the storey above has rusticated quoins. A deep first-floor ashlar band with a projecting band above runs across the building, beneath a moulded eaves cornice.

The west side, facing the courtyard, contains a central basket-arched carriage entry with double board doors fitted with strap hinges. The quoined jambs and voussoirs are roll-moulded, with the voussoirs breaking through the first-floor band. On either side of the entry are board doors set in architraves with 2-light overlights. Three flat-faced cross-windows occupy the first floor, each with roll-moulded architraves and ashlar panels above and below. The central first-floor window has been blocked by a coursed rubble chimney flue. Guttering is supported by scrolled iron brackets, and an ashlar stack rises at the eaves at the centre.

The east side faces the garden. The higher ground level obscures the ground floor, and access to the first floor is gained by a double flight of stone steps with a plain 20th-century iron balustrade leading to central double glazed doors. This doorway was originally a cross-window with an elaborate architrave. Flanking cross-windows with ashlar panels match those on the west side.

The south front, facing the road, is notably better dressed in stonework than the side walls. Pilasters frame the elevation, with ground-floor windows matching those on the flanking walls. The first-floor windows are deeper and fitted with 18-pane sashes, which have been restored. The plinth and first-floor band break forward slightly, with ashlar panels above and below the windows. The moulded eaves cornice continues across the gable to form a deeply-moulded triangular pediment, which terminates in an acorn finial. The gable has ashlar copings.

The north gable end is largely obscured by 20th-century walling. A narrow window in an architrave lights the ground floor on the right, while a doorway in an architrave with a 2-light overlight accesses the first floor at the centre, with an ashlar panel above. A lead downpipe, probably reset, runs to the right. Its hopper bears raised lettering reading "C H A 1665", identifying Hugh Currer and his wife Ann Haworth.

The ground floor features a stone flag floor and contains an inserted staircase against the east wall. Inscriptions scratched on the ground-floor south window sill date from the 1770s and 1780s and include the initials M A and a scratched sundial. The first floor has an enlarged fireplace, probably dating to the 19th century, a moulded ceiling cornice, and fielded panels to the window reveals.

Henry Currer, who died in 1723, is commemorated by a memorial in the choir of Kildwick Church, which records that he was "a great proficient in the study of the law" who remained at Kildwick as a Justice of the Bench rather than seeking fortune in London. He probably commissioned the construction of this garden house, possibly originally intended as an orangery. No evidence has been found to confirm its use as a courtroom, despite the name. The first floor was apparently separate from the ground floor and was originally accessed from the north side, nearest the house. It may have been unheated. The garden steps and entrance were probably created in the mid-19th century when the Wilson family were in residence. By 1911, the building was in use as a billiard room.