Falcon Manor Hotel

A large house, built in 1842 by G Webster for Reverend H J Swale, the first vicar of the Church of Holy Ascension in Settle. It is now a hotel and was designed in the Jacobean style. The house is two storeys high with half-dormer windows, and has three bays across the front. It is constructed of coursed stone with a stone slate roof. The symmetrical entrance front features a projecting, two-storey gabled porch. The entrance itself has a moulded surround and a Tudor arched head with a hoodmould and carved shield in the pediment above. A sill band runs across the first floor, and there is a three-light mullioned and transomed window with four-centred heads and a hoodmould. A stepped three-light window is set in the gable. A pierced balustrade extends to the left and right returns of the porch. Semi-octagonal buttresses continue above the gables as turreted finials, with a diaper pattern at the apex of each gable. Gabled bays flank the porch on either side. The right-hand bay has a three-light mullioned and transomed bay window on the ground floor, a three-light mullioned and transomed window above, and a two-light mullioned window in the gable. A dripstone is above the bay window, while the others are topped with hoodmoulds. Ball finials top the gables, and the chimneys are turreted. Ivy obscures the left-hand bay. The right-hand garden front has three bays; the outer two are gabled, each with a four-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, a similar three-light window on the first floor, and two two-light mullioned windows on the second floor. All have hoodmoulds. The central bay window has a five-light mullioned and transomed window on both floors, with a pierced balustrade above. The numerous chimneys are a distinctive visual feature.