The Old Abbey And Attached Farmbuilding

The Old Abbey and attached farmbuilding is a Grade II* listed house that incorporates part of the former chapel of Yedingham Priory. It dates from the 12th to 13th centuries and features a wall with two blocked arches. The house likely includes elements from an 18th-century structure, which may have been a late 17th-century farmhouse, and has undergone alterations in the 19th century. The building is constructed of dressed sandstone with a pantile roof and brick stacks.

Originally, the house had a 2-cell baffle-entry plan but was later extended to include the remains of the Priory wall, forming an L-shape with the attached farmbuilding. The structure is two stories high, with a single-window crosswing to the right and a one-story range. A 20th-century door is set within a glazed porch at the re-entrant angle. The crosswing features 20th-century two-light casements with wedge lintels on both floors and a dormer on the one-and-a-half-story range.

On the rear side, the end of the attached farmbuilding showcases a blocked round arch made of voussoirs, which has a continuous moulded impost band. Adjacent to the arch is a bracketed holy water stoup with a trefoiled canopy. The building has coped gables and shaped kneelers, with a central stack in the crosswing and an end stack in the service wing.

Inside the farmbuilding, the reverse of the round arch is single chamfered and has a hood-mould with one surviving stiff-leaf stop, along with imposts featuring stiff-leaf moulding. Within the house, the first room of the service wing and the room above contain a pointed arch of three orders, supported by slender colonettes with stiff-leaf capitals. The arch features keel and dog-tooth mouldings, with its pointed apex visible in the upper room, although the exterior has been completely walled-in.

In the room to the left of the crosswing, the chamfered bressumer, firewindow, and spice cupboard of the central fireplace are preserved, with the firehood visible in the center of the floor above. Additionally, two 18th-century plank doors remain: one leads to the service wing passage, and the other opens to the first-floor room on the right, which features an H-L hinge.