Sneaton Castle
| Sneaton Castle | |
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 The building in 2012 | |
.svg)  Location within North Yorkshire | |
General information | |
| Status | Converted to hotel use |
| Location | Castle Road, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England |
| Coordinates | 54°29′01″N 0°38′34″W / 54.4836°N 0.6427°W |
| Year built | c. 1830 (probable) |
| Website | |
| sneatoncastle | |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Sneaton Castle (St Hildas Priory) |
| Designated | 23 February 1954 |
| Reference no. | 1148250 |
Sneaton Castle is a historic building on Castle Road in Whitby, a town in North Yorkshire, England.
James Wilson purchased Sneaton Manor in 1820, and rebuilt it as a castellated house. In 1914, it was converted into the headquarters of the new Order of the Holy Paraclete, and a girls' boarding school. The school closed in 1997, and the order thereafter used the space as a conference and retreat centre. A new priory was built in the grounds in 2018, and the house was then converted into a hotel. The building has been Grade II listed since 1954.
The house is built of stone with flat roofs. The centre section has two storeys and five bays, and an embattled parapet stepped up in the centre over a coat of arms. In the centre is an enclosed embattled porch containing a doorway with a four-centred arch. The windows are sashes. The centre section is flanked by taller two-storey embattled towers containing sash windows and cross loops. The battlements are machicolated, and on the corners are embattled bartisans.
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Notes
- ↑ The building's official listing gives its address as Guisborough Road, but its address is on Castle Road.
References
- 1 2 3 Historic England. "Sneaton Castle (St Hildas Priory) (Grade II) (1148250)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
- ↑ "USRN: 33700464 | Castle Road". FindMyStreet. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ Fisher, D. R. (2009). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820–1832. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521193146. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ↑ Anson, Peter Frederick (1964). The Call of the Cloister. SPCK.
- ↑ "The end of an era". Gazette & Herald. 9 June 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ↑ "Archbishop of York lays foundation stone for new Priory at Whitby". Anglican Communion News Service. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ↑ Newton, Grace (11 January 2021). "How a Whitby farming family who lost their livelihood to foot and mouth disease bounced back with a glamping site and a castle". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sneaton Castle for sale for first time since 1915". Yorkshire Post. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ↑ 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.
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