Whitcliffe Hall

Whitcliffe Hall is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and has a 20th-century pantile roof featuring two eaves courses of stone. The building has two storeys with an attic and three first-floor windows. Notable architectural features include quoins, a six-panel door with an overlight in a plain frame located to the left of center, and a tall window above it. The flanking and first-floor windows are casements from around 1960, complete with stone sills and lintels. On the far right, there is a blocked segmental-arched doorway with a window above, as well as traces of a blocked window on the first floor between the central and left-hand windows. The house has kneelers and ashlar gable coping, along with a central brick stack.

At the rear, on the far right of each floor, there is a blocked five-light double-chamfered mullion and transom window with almost square reveals. A similar blocked window is located to the left of center on the first floor, but it is largely obscured by a low two-storey 19th-century service range and a 20th-century porch that is built at right angles to the main body of the house. A moulded first-floor string course terminates to the left of center, with the left return likely obscured by an extension of one bay to the main range. The left return features a blocked segmental-arched window on both the ground and first floors, and a side-sliding sash with glazing bars in the gable; the first-floor string returns from the rear. The right return has 20th-century windows on the ground and first floors, and a 16-pane sash in the attic. The interior has not been inspected, but it is said that the mullion and transom windows retain their leaded lights behind the plaster blocking. The house is situated on the site of a grange that belonged to the Archbishops of York.