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Swale Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Grinton, North Yorkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.3814 / 54°22'52"N

Longitude: -1.9379 / 1°56'16"W

OS Eastings: 404128

OS Northings: 498432

OS Grid: SE041984

Mapcode National: GBR GKXS.75

Mapcode Global: WHB5C.64FH

Plus Code: 9C6W93J6+GR

Entry Name: Swale Hall

Listing Date: 4 September 1952

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1179458

English Heritage Legacy ID: 321988

ID on this website: 101179458

Location: Grinton, North Yorkshire, DL11

County: North Yorkshire

District: Richmondshire

Civil Parish: Grinton

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

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Description


GRINTON SWALE HALL LANE
SE 0498
(north side)
Grinton
23/50 Swale Hall
4.9.52
- II
Manor house. C17. Rendered rubble on boulder plinth, stone slate roof.
2-room central lobby-entry plan, with central rear stair turret, and
cross-wing on left projecting only to rear. 2 storeys, 3 first floor
windows. Central quoined doorway with moulded arris, triangular soffit
and pedimented hood to lintel. Double-chamfered mullioned windows under
birds-beak section drip moulds. On ground floor, 1 single-light window
to left, and 2 formerly 4-light windows flanking doorway. On first
floor, 2 formerly 4-light windows flanking a single-light window at
slightly lower level over doorway. On left, bay of cross-wing has
partly-blocked 4-light window on ground floor, pitching door under drip
mould on first floor. Upstanding kneelers and saddleback copings to
house overall. Central stack with classical cappings. Rear elevation
with, on ground floor, a 2-light casement window to left of turret, a
single-light window with stone surround in angle to left of turret, and
2-light mullioned window in turret; on first floor, 3 single-light
windows to left of turret, 1 in turret and 1 to right of turret. On
right, in gable-end of cross-wing, a 3-light window, now converted to
2 on each floor. Left return: large lateral stack to cross-wing. Right
return: 2-light window to both floors and gable. Interior: 2 back-to-
back fireplaces, both large, with straight heads, chamfered surrounds,
and birds-beak section string course above. Stone stairs in straight
flight in turret, now boarded over. The site of the medieval capital
messuage of Bridlington Priory's manor of West Grinton. The family
called Swale pretended to this manor after the Reformation. The house
was in tenements in C18. 'VCH North Riding', 1.


Listing NGR: SE0412898432

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