Baxby Manor

Details

HUSTHWAITE BELL LANE SE 5075-5175 5 (north end) 11/45 Baxby Manor (formerly 12.3.80 listed as Baxby Manor House) GV II

Farmhouse. c1300 3-bay range, with inserted fire stack and cross-wing to right added c1600; encased in stone C18. Timber-framed building with rear aisle encased in brown sandstone, irregularly coursed; pantile roofs. Single-storey hall, made into 2 floors, 3:1 first-floor windows. Front (south elevation): to right of main range, door to cross passage, of 6 fielded panels (2 panels glazed), attached to oak board door with wooden bolt and locks; ground-floor windows from left: sash window with glazing bars and 16-pane sash windows, both with flat arches, 16-pane first-floor windows; fire-mark at eaves level; brick stacks at left end and to left of door. Projecting forward to right, gabled end of cross-wing, with on each floor a 16-pane sash window with exposed sash box and flat arch; finial to apex of gable. Rear: main range, from left, 2-panel door to cross passage attached to old board door with wooden bolt and locks; X- end to tie; vertical panel of cemented brickwork covering cruck blade; side- sliding sash window with "DAIRY" inscribed on lintel; timber porch over 2-panel door. Eaves are lower at the rear (over aisle) and there are no first-floor windows. Projecting forward to left, gabled end of cross-wing, with a side- sliding sash ground floor window, and the gable stonework on corbelled offset. Right return (rear) of wing: on each floor a side-sliding sash window, with flat-arch on ground floor. Left return of main range: on first-floor, 2-light window and blocked pitching door, both with flat arches. Right return of cross- wing; in centre a single-storey pent-roofed outhouse hides a large circular bread oven; towards rear, ground-floor 16-pane sash window with timber lintel and first-floor side-sliding sash window, also first-floor blocked 3-light mullion window; roof of 2 builds, with central change of levels, large brick stack at junction; brick end stack to rear. Interior: throughout this very important house, many sections of timber-framing have been exposed including, on the ground floor, the framing of the main range east end wall and the separately-framed cross-wing beside it; on the first floor the base-cruck blade in rear wall between right-hand bays has roll-moulded arch brace; splendid roof with three crown-post trusses; the central two with crown-posts straight-braced to tie-beams, collar purlins and collars, and the tie-beams braced to the rafters and to the collar; other trusses are straight-braced, collared rafter trusses. Other features include, in cross-passage, behind the modern staircase, an octagonal spere chamfered with bar stops and at the top running into one, and possibly two, pointed doorways; to right, in centre of cross-wing, former kitchen has large fire-place with timber bressummer and, projecting to outside, vast bread oven, mortices in beam indicating former partition towards rear; to left of cross passage, hall now floored and divided into 3 ground-floor rooms, the main one, now the dining room, with huge fireplaces with progressively- smaller smoke-hoods inserted within main one, the main bressummer with an oblique joint above a brick post; brick floor arranged in parquet plan, and very large chamfered lateral beams; on first-floor, C17 panelling across aisle in cross-passage bay, and in cross-wing, the borrowed light to modern bathroom has old glass in lead carnes. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 618; Harrison, B, and Hutton, B. Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland (1984), pp.21-2.

Listing NGR: SE5124375186

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

332755

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 21-22
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 618, ()

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.