Sneaton Castle
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Sneaton Castle is a historic building in Whitby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.
James Wilson purchased Sneaton Manor in 1820, and rebuilt it as a castellated house.[1] In 1914, it was converted into the headquarters of the new Order of the Holy Paraclete, and a girls' boarding school.[2] The school closed in 1997, and the order thereafter used the space as a conference and retreat centre.[3] A new priory was built in the grounds in 2018, and the house was then converted into a hotel.[4][5][6] The building has been grade II listed since 1954.[7]
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.[7][8]