Beck House

Beck House is a building that was originally a house and is now part of Giggleswick School. It dates from the early 18th century, with alterations from the early 19th century and the 1930s. The structure is made of squared rubble with limestone dressings and features a slate roof. It was originally designed with a central staircase plan.

The garden front has a tripartite composition, featuring a central section that is two storeys high with three bays, flanked by two-storey wings with two bays each. The central entrance is highlighted by an eared architrave, a six-panel door, and an eight-pane rectangular fanlight. Console brackets support a round pediment above, which includes a pulvinated frieze adorned with a lion's mask and foliate carving. The ground floor windows on either side of the entrance have moulded architraves, pulvinated friezes, and broken round pediments, with 18-pane sash windows. The three first-floor windows are similar but have 15-pane sashes and triangular pediments. The building features projecting chamfered quoins and a round-headed pediment at the gable, which contains three attic windows in the tympanum: a single central light with a moulded architrave and 24-pane sashes, flanked by two oculi. There are left and right-hand ridge stacks, and the hipped wings on either side each have two windows per storey, with moulded architraves; the ground floor has 18-pane sashes and the upper floor has 15-pane sashes. An upper floor string course and a moulded eaves cornice are also present. The rainwater heads on the right and left are fluted and inscribed with "T B" (T Banker) and the year 1787.

To the left, there is a 1930s extension that is two storeys high and has seven bays, with a right-hand return. The ground floor windows of this extension retain early 18th-century sashes with 36 panes.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase. The dog-leg servants' stairs still feature early 18th-century closed string turned balusters and a grip handrail leading to the attic. The kitchen retains an early 18th-century fireplace with a large overmantle and fluted capitals. This design is reminiscent of a five-bay pediment from 1707 at Brizlincote Hall in Bretby, Derbyshire.