The Dower House

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH BOND END (west side)

6/60 No 48 (The Dower House) 5.2.52 GV II

Dower House, now hotel. Mid C18 with C20 additions. Red brick, Flemish bond, C20 pantile roof, with 2 eaves courses of stone. 3 storeys, the top storey false, 7 first-floor windows. Rusticated quoins, limestone plinth. Central 6-panel door with fanlight; rubbed-brick round arch with keystone. Flanking and first-floor windows: sashes with glazing bars in flush wood architraves. Projecting sills, rubbed brick flat arches with keystones. Second floor: 5 blind windows in tall parapet wall which disguises 3 roof gables. Top 5 courses of parapet (above blind windows) rebuilt mid C20, moulded limestone coping. Brick stacks to rear, left and right. Rear: original rear wall obscured by additional wing for hotel accommodation. Left return: one inserted sash window with glazing bars, ground floor right. Right return: random fenestration, C20 frames. Interior: fine C18 staircase opposite entrance. Turned balusters and newels, ramped handrail. The building was the Dower house of the Slingsby family of Knaresborough and Scriven. It was greatly extended in 1970-80, when the stable block was also converted to hotel use.

Listing NGR: SE3465857374