Kilnsey Old Hall

Kilnsey Old Hall is a historic building in Kilnsey, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

In the Mediaeval period, the site was owned by Fountains Abbey, who operated a grange there. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was sold to the Yorke family, who in the 17th century sold it to Christopher Wade. In 1648, he constructed a new house on the site, now the Old Hall. The Wade family sold the house in 1693, and by 1745 it had been let to a tenant. In about 1800, it was converted into a farm outbuilding, and in 1805 it was described as "fast becoming a ruin". However, it was reroofed, and survived, with cattle stalls added to the ground floor in the 20th century. In 1998, it was purchased by Sonia and Tim Wilkinson, who restored the building, partly funding it through operating it as a bed and breakfast.

The building is built of limestone on a chamfered plinth, with gritstone dressings, quoins, and a stone slate roof, hipped on the right and with moulded gable coping and kneelers with vase finials elsewhere. There is an L-shaped plan, the main range with four bays, three storeys and an attic, reducing on a slope to two storeys and an attic, and a rear wing with three storeys and one bay. In the northeast front is a doorway with chamfered quoined jambs, a cart entrance with a segmental arch and a keystone, a doorway with moulded quoined jambs and an arched lintel with initials and the date, and a flight of external steps leading to a doorway with a chamfered quoined surround. Most of the windows are recessed, chamfered and mullioned. Inside, the first and second floors retain 17th century plasterwork and fireplaces, and there is a queen post roof. The building has been Grade II* listed since 1954.