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Baxby Manor

Husthwaite, GB

Baxby Manor

Baxby Manor is a historic building in Husthwaite, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The core of the manor house was built in about 1300. A chimney was inserted and a wing on the right was added in about 1600. The outer walls were encased in stone in the 18th century. The house was grade II l

isted in 1980. The building has recently served as a farmhouse. From the mid 1980s, part of the grounds were used as an unlicensed airfield. The building has a timber framed core encased in brown sandstone, and it has a pantile roof. At the rear, brickwork covers a base cruck, something found elsewhere in northern England only at Canons Garth in Helmsley. The house has two storeys, a main range of three bays, and a gabled cross-wing on the right. On the front is a doorway, and at the rear is a timber porch. Most of the windows are sashes, some horizontally-sliding, and there is a blocked mullioned window. Inside, there is exposed timber framing; 17th-century panelling; a former kitchen with a large fireplace and bread oven; and a huge fireplace in the dining room, which is a subdivision of the former hall.

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