Description

BIRSTWITH LACKON BANK
SE 25 NW (west side, off)

14/26 Swarcliffe Hall, now
Grosvenor House School

GV II

Country house (Swarcliffe Hall) now school. 1848-50 by Major Rhode Hawkins
for John Greenwood of Knowle near Keighley, enlarged 1866-67. Coursed
squared gritstone and ashlar, graduated grey slate roofs. Original square
house of 2 storeys and 3 bays, facing east, with larger additional wing
attached to north with, to rear, a 4-storey tower which in turn has a lower
2-storey service wing attached to north. In a Jacobethan style: Tudor arch
and hoodmould to main door in original range, bay 2, flanked by projecting
gabled wings with oriel and mullion-and-transom windows with hoodmoulds;
continuous dripmoulds, gable copings, ball finials and tall chimneys with 1,
2 and 3 flues. Addition, projecting forward on right, in same style. Rear,
west courtyard: date 1850 carved above entrance to original range. Right
return: tower with corner pinnacles and a turret. Interior: original
reception rooms remain: rear hall with elaborately carved wooden fire
surround in Jacobean style, and panelled plaster ceiling; staircase rising
from hall has square-section balusters linked by arches; south-east living
room has marble fireplaces and patterned tiles. J G Greenwood was a cotton
spinner at Keighley and, having bought the Wreaks Mill, Birstwith, in 1805
became a major landowner in the area. B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale,
1967, p 227.

Listing NGR: SE2354659407

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Swarcliffe Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26443386

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)