Mulwith Farmhouse

SE 36 NE NEWBY WITH MULWITH MULWITH LANE (west side, off)

2/26 Mulwith Farmhouse

• II

House. Mid C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered, purple slates, stone foundations. 2 storeys, 3 bays with rear outshut and wing. A 6-panel door between bays 1 and 2; restored 16-pane windows in flush wood architraves. End stacks. Interior: the door opens into a narrow hall- passage with C18 moulded ceiling cornice and round arch. The central room has a chamfered spine beam; the partition wall between central and third bay removed in mid C20 and the fine built-in cupboards which formed part of the walling were repositioned against the hall-passage wall. The cupboards have a central double-door unit of 6 fielded panels, drawers beneath. The doors cover curved display shelves and are flanked by further cupboard and drawer units. Bay 3: a cyma stop to chamfered ceiling beam. A plaque over the front door (erected c1980) records that Mary Ward was born at Mulwith in 1585. She founded a Roman Catholic order of nuns which she intended to be the first active and unenclosed Order in the church's history. Her small community visited Mulwith or Newby before settling at Heworth near York. Fr H Aveling, "The Catholic Recusants of the W R Yorks", Proc Leeds Phil and Lit Soc X Pt VI, Sep 1963, p 238.

Listing NGR: SE3639766717