Farnhill Hall

Has been described as a Certain Fortified Manor House

There are major building remains

NameFarnhill Hall
Alternative NamesFarnhill House
Historic CountryYorkshire
Modern AuthorityNorth Yorkshire
1974 AuthorityNorth Yorkshire
Civil ParishFarnhill

Manor house of C15 much altered C16 and C19. Rubble with slate roofs, hipped at right hand end. Now of 2 storeys but originally composed of a one-storey hall with chamber block and kitchen block at either end, in a single range. Ends of hall marked by 4 turrets, 2 on each front. The hall was lit by paired tall trefoil-headed lights, 2 pairs of which survive to right hand side of the dorway. Doorway is early C20 Gothic but defended by a small gabled machicolated dormer. The right hand block as a blocked 2-light round-headed window to ground floor and a blocked doorway facing the hall roof which may have served lost battlements. At the rear the windows are all C19 or early C20 with slightly arched heads, mostly sashes. The interior (not seen) is said to contain a large elliptical-headed fireplace and woodwork of early C20 by Robert Thompson of Kilburn. Although much altered, this is a rare survival of a fortified manor house built in a single range, of which more remains to be discovered, and the building merits a high grade in consequence. (Listed Building Report)

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law

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OS Map Grid ReferenceSE003464
Latitude53.9142913818359
Longitude-1.9962899684906
Eastings400340
Northings446460
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 37
  • Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p. 25
  • Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 1 Northern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 335
  • Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 310 (slight)
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 531 (possible)
  • Ryder, P.F., 1982 (paperback edn 1992), The Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire (Ash Grove Book) p. 108-22
  • Pevsner, N., 1959, Buildings of England: Yorkshire: West Riding (London) p. 196
  • Whitaker, T.D., 1812, The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven in the County of York (London) p. 170 online copy

Journals

  • Bernard Wood, G., 1960 Dec., 'Tower Houses of Yorkshire' Country Life p. 1482

Other

  • Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 593 online copy