Grassfield House Hotel

Grassfield House Hotel is a house, now a hotel, built in 1810 for Hanley Hutchinson. It is constructed of ashlar with a grey slate roof. The main block is two storeys high, with five bays, the central three projecting forward under a pediment. An attached range to the left adjoins the rear of the main building, and this is extended by a further two-storey, one-bay addition to the left.

The main block has a central glazed double door, topped with a fanlight and surrounded by a moulded architrave with imposts. Flanking this door are Doric columns that support an entablature, cornice, and blocking course. The ground floor windows are four-pane sashes with projecting sills and incised lintels. The first floor has sashes with glazing bars, a sill band to the central three bays, and matching lintels to the ground floor. Rectangular recesses are positioned between the ground and first-floor windows. The building has moulded eaves and a pediment cornice. The hipped roof has paired chimney stacks in bays two and four.

The attached range to the left features two sixteen-pane sashes on the ground floor, and sashes with glazing bars above, mirroring the detailing of the main facade. A wall attached to the right has two blind windows with rectangular panels above, and a moulded cornice and blocking course. To the right of the wall, a ramped wall of coursed squared rubble with flat coping leads to a lean-to garden house attached to the north side, which has three blocked round-arched windows with keystones, gable coping, and bulbous kneelers.

The gate piers are approximately three metres high, with plinths, cornices, and pyramidal finials. A wall extends approximately ten metres to the right of the piers, sloping downwards once. A section of wall continues to the right, ramping down to gate piers and continues for approximately 10 metres.

Hanley Hutchinson was a prominent figure in the Greenhow lead mining industry, having leased the Cockhill-Sunside lead mines and served on the provisional committee of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Railway. He also owned the Brigg House Rolling Mill.