Fort Montague With Attached Wall To West

SE 3556 KNARESBOROUGH CRAG LANE (south end, off)

9/103 Fort Montague, with attached wall to west 5.2.52 - II

House and attached wall. 1770-86. By and for Thomas Hill and his son. Rock cut with rubble stone, part rendered, and Westmorland slate roof. 4 storeys, 1 room in plan, cut into the face of the cliff. East side: segmental arched entrance to top storey, on right, has 6-panel door in plain frame. No other openings. All windows are on the south face, one window to each floor, and are side-sliding sashes with glazing bars to lower 3 floors and a 4-pane sash to the top floor. Embattled parapet. Wall to left also embattled. Thomas Hill was a weaver who established a tenement on the cliff face, land owned by Thomas Slingsby. Over 16 years he terraced the cliff face and built the house, the work being completed by his son. The building was one of many rock-cut dwellings in the town in the C18 and C19. It is also known as The House in the Rock. E Hargrove, History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough, 1809, p 92. Governor Hill, An account of Fort Montague at Knaresboro' in a letter from a Gentleman at Harrogate to his Friend in London, 1792.

Listing NGR: SE3511056492