Moulton Manor
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Moulton Manor is a historic building in Moulton, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
The manor house was rebuilt in about 1570, and was slightly altered in the 17th century. A local tradition states that James VI and I spent a night in the house. By the early 20th century, it served as a farmhouse, but it was restored, extended and altered in 1938. The building was grade I listed in 1951.[1][2]
The house is built of stone on plinths, with chamfered rusticated quoins, and pantile roofs with shaped kneelers and stone copings. It has three storeys and a part basement, and an H-shaped plan, with a middle range of three bays, and two-bay gabled cross-wings. Five steps with side parapets lead up to the central doorway with a decorated architrave, a moulded frieze and a stepped hood mould. Most of the windows are cross windows, some with pediments. Above the doorway is a semicircular window with keystones, and above the central range and return is a parapet and a balustrade with pedestals.[2][3]
Inside the house, the entrance hall has 17th-century panelling and a stone architrave around the fireplace. The room to the left has early panelling, with pilasters between, the capitals of which depict carpenters' tools, and a cornice with frieze below. The kitchen has a large fireplace and chimney, with a possible priest hole. There is a 17th-century staircase with barleytwist balusters, above which is a moulded ceiling. On the first floor is a room with an elaborate fireplace with a frieze above, while all the rooms have early doorways and original fireplaces.[2]
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- ^ Page, William (1914). A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1. London: Victoria County History. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
- ^ a b c Historic England. "The Manor House, Moulton (1131585)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.