Scarcroft is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The parish contains eight listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The parish contains the village of Scarcroft and the surrounding countryside, and the listed buildings consist of houses, a former toll house, and three milestones.
The milepost is on the west side of Bay Horse Lane, and is in sandstone. It consists of a square post 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) high with a rounded top. The inscriptions include the distances to Tadcaster and to Otley.[2]
The milestone by the side of Milner Lane at its junction with Thorner Lane consists of an upright stone with incised lettering. On the east face is the distance to Wetherby and on the west face is the illegible distance to Leeds.[3]
A large house later extended and used for other purposes. It is in stone on a plinth, with a mouldedcornice, a blocking course with acroteria on the corners, a Welsh blue slate roof, and two storeys. The original part has sides of five bays, and there are later extensions on the left and at the rear. On the front is a Tuscan porch, and a doorway with monolithicjambs. The windows are sashes, and in the right return is a two-storey bow window. The extension on the left has five bays, and contains a two-storey cantedbay window. To the right is a three-storey clock tower with rusticatedquoins, corner pilasters, a clock face in a semicircular-arched window with an architrave, an impost, and a keystone, over which is a cornice and a pierced parapet.[4][6]
A large house with a coach house, both in sandstone with blue slate roofs. The house has an uneven U-shaped plan, with the front range facing south, containing four bays, a string course, and a parapet, and two gables with corbelled kneelers. The second bay projects and contains a cantedbay window. The windows have small panes, some are mullioned and transomed and some are sashes. The coach house forms the north side of the courtyard and has three bays. It contains a segmental-arched carriage entrance, doors, windows, and dove openings.[7]
A former toll house, it is in stone with a stone slate roof, and has a single storey. The doorway has a monolithiclintel, and there is a small window to the left. The right return contains a sash window, and in the left return is a small opening.[8]
A large house, later used for other purposes, it is in stone on a plinth, the ground floor rusticated, with giant pilasters, a band, a frieze, a projecting eavescornice, a blocking course, and a hipped roof of Westmorland green slate. There are two storeys, attics and cellars, and a symmetrical front of three bays, with a central triangular pediment. Steps flanked by drums with urns lead up to a porch with flutedTuscan columns, and a doorway with an architrave and a fanlight. The windows are sashes. The rear has projecting wings and a single Tuscan column supporting a porch. In the right return are two bow windows.[4][9]
The milestone is on the east side of Wetherby road (A58 road), south of the village. It is in stone with a triangular section and a rounded top with cast iron overlay. The top is inscribed "LEEDS & COLLINGHAM ROAD" and "SCARCROFT", and on the right faces are the distances to Collingham, Leeds and Wetherby.[10]
