Mulwith Farmhouse

Mulwith Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is rendered with purple slates and has stone foundations. It is two storeys high and features three bays, along with a rear outshut and wing. The entrance includes a six-panel door located between the first and second bays, and there are restored 16-pane windows set in flush wood architraves. The house has end stacks.

Inside, the door leads into a narrow hall-passage that features an 18th-century moulded ceiling cornice and a round arch. The central room contains a chamfered spine beam. In the mid-20th century, the partition wall between the central room and the third bay was removed, and the fine built-in cupboards that were part of this wall were repositioned against the hall-passage wall. These cupboards include a central double-door unit with six fielded panels and drawers beneath, which conceal curved display shelves and are flanked by additional cupboard and drawer units. In the third bay, there is a cyma stop to the chamfered ceiling beam.

A plaque above the front door, erected around 1980, notes that Mary Ward was born at Mulwith in 1585. She founded a Roman Catholic order of nuns that 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.