Egton is a civil parish in the former Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 45 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Egton and Egton Bridge, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings. The other listed buildings include public houses, churches and associated structures, a series of waymarkers, a boundary stone, a milepost, a bridge, a school and a memorial cross.
The cottage is cruck-framed, it is encased in sandstone, and has a thatched roof. There is a single storey and five bays. On the front is a doorway and windows, including sashes, one horizontally-sliding, a fire window and a tripartite window. Inside, there is a pair of crucks, and a reconstructed inglenook fireplace.[4]
The cottage is cruck-framed, it is encased in sandstone, it has a thatched roof, and an extension with a pantile roof. There is a single storey, 2½ bays, and a lower single-storey single bay extension. On the front is a doorway, a fire window with a chamfered surround, a sash window and a casement window. Inside, there are three pairs of full crucks and an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressummer.[5][6]
A manor house, later a farmhouse, in sandstone with a pantile roof, copedgables and block kneelers. There is a U-shaped plan, the middle range with two storeys and two bays, and flanking gabled cross-wings with two storeys and attics and one bay. In the centre is a doorway with a quoined and chamfered surround, and the windows are sashes. At the rear is a basement and a two-light mullioned window.[5][7]
The farm buildings consist of a range of byres in sandstone with a corrugated asbestos roof, copedgables and shaped kneelers. There is one storey and a loft, and six bays. On the hall front are three doorways with quoined and chamfered surrounds, and slit vents, and on the yard front is also a cart opening.[8]
The public house, which was later extended, is in sandstone, with corbelledeaves, and pantile roofs with copedgables, and on the left is a shaped initialled and dated kneeler. The original part has two storeys and three bays, and to the right is a later taller single-bay extension. The porch is gabled and contains a doorway with a chamfered and quoined surround. To the right are two large mullioned windows, to the left are altered windows in the ground floor and sashes above. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace.[9]
Two houses in sandstone with pantile roofs, copedgables and shaped kneelers, and two storeys. The Forge on the left has five bays, a doorway with a quoined and chamfered surround, a dated lintel, and a hood mould. Some windows are mullioned, and others are sashes. Market Place Cottage has two bays, and contains a doorway, and a fixed window with a quoined and chamfered surround.[10]
A house and outbuilding with a cruck-framed core, partly encased and partly rebuilt in sandstone, with corbelledeaves, and pantile roofs with copedgables. The house has 1½ storeys and two bays, and the outbuilding has one storey and 2½ bays. The openings include doorways, a fire window and a casement window. Inside there are two pairs of upper crucks.[11]
The cottage is in stone with a pantile roof, one storey and four bays. On the front are two doorways, a fixed light, and sash windows, one of them horizontally-sliding.[12]
A boundary stone in gritstone, consisting of a column with a square section, about 1.25 metres (4 ft 1 in) high, in a square socket stone. There are inscriptions on three faces.[13]
The house is in sandstone, and has a pantile roof with a coped left gable. There are two storeys and two bays. The doorway is in the centre and is flanked by sash windows, and in the upper floor are pivoting windows.[14]
The outbuilding is in sandstone with corbelledeaves and a pantile roof. There is one storey and one bay. It contains a doorway and a fixed-light window.[15]
Stables, later altered and used for other purposes, in sandstone, with a pantile roof and copedgables. There is one storey and four bays. The openings include doorways and pivoted windows.[16]
A row of three houses in sandstone, with pantile roofs, copedgables and kneelers. They all have two storeys, the middle house is taller with three bays, and the outer houses each has two bays. The middle house has corbelledeaves, and a central doorway with a quoinedarchitrave and a hood mould. The windows are mullioned with casements. The windows in the outer houses are sashes, those in the left house in architraves.[17]
A farmhouse in sandstone with a pantile roof, copedgables and a block kneeler. The main block has two storeys and two bays, and to the right is a wing and a projecting outshut with 1½ storeys and a catslide roof. The windows on the front are sashes, and in the right return is a horizontally-sliding sash.[18]
The garden is enclosed by a wall in sandstone, with orange-red brick banding and flat coping. It varies in height, and contains a gateway with chamferedpiers, a round arch on mouldedimposts, a keystone, and a moulded cornice under an entablature with heraldic beasts. In the east wall is a segmental-headed niche containing a seat, and a round-arched gateway with a keystone. The sheds are in sandstone with corbelledeaves, and pantile roofs with copedgables. There is one storey and five bays, and they contain paired doorways under a chamfered lintel, and sash windows. In the left return is a louvred owlhole with a chamfered surround.[19]
The waymarker is in gritstone and consists of a roughly rectangular monolith about 1.25 metres (4 ft 1 in) high. It is pierced with a square hole towards the top.[21]
The waymarker is in gritstone and consists of a roughly rectangular monolith about 2.1 metres (6 ft 11 in) high. It has a wedge-shaped top pierced by a square hole, and "OSBM" is incised on the north side.[23]
The waymarker is in gritstone and consists of a roughly pointed monolith about 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in) high, with the top pierced by square hole. The south face is inscribed " OSBM".[25]
The waymarker is in gritstone and consists of a massive monolith slab, irregularly tapered, and about 3.5 metres (11 ft) high. The west face is inscribed " OSBM".[26]
The farm buildings are in sandstone with pantile roofs, copedgables and block kneelers. One range consists of a threshing barn and a cartshed with two storeys and three bays, and the other range at right angles, containing byres, cowsheds and stables, has one storey and six bays. The openings include stable doors, windows and slit vents.[28]
The farm buildings consist of a smithy, a stable and byres. They are in sandstone with a pantile roof, copedgables and block kneelers. The buildings are in a single storey, and consist of a four-bay range to the right of a lower six-bay range. The openings include stable doors, and windows.[29]
The building, which has been extended, is in sandstone, and has a stone slate roof with stone coping and kneelers. There are two storeys and the entrance is gabled with one bay and a lean-to extension. The doorway is in the extension, and above is a mullioned and transomed window, a canopiedniche containing a painted statue, an inscribed semicircular tablet, and a square bellcote with a shallow ogee cap and a cross.[30]
The public house, which has been extended, is in sandstone, with corbelledeaves, and roofs of pantile and slate with copedgables, block kneelers and an urn finial. The central part has two storeys and two bays, to the right is a taller part with two storeys and three bays, and to the left is a single-storey wing. The right part contains a doorway with a fanlight, over which is a carved datestone. There is another doorway in the central part, and the windows in all parts are sashes.[31]
A row of four houses and an attached garage, in sandstone that have roofs of slate and pantile with copedgables, and two storeys. The windows are sash windows with painted stone sills, and all the openings have tooled lintels.[32]
The farmhouse and outbuilding are in whitewashed sandstone with quoins. The farmhouse has a slate roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers, two storeys and three bays. The doorway has a fanlight, and the windows are sashes, and all the openings have painted wedge lintels. The outbuilding has one storey and one bay, a pantile roof with a coped right gable, and contains a horizontally-sliding sash window.[33]
The farmhouse is in sandstone on a plinth, with corbelledeaves, and a slate roof with copedgables and block kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays, and a two-storey single-bay wing to the right. The doorway has a fanlight and the windows are sashes and all the openings have tooled lintels.[34]
The farm buildings consist of a barn, stables and byres, and are in sandstone with pantile roofs, copedgables and block kneelers. There is a range with one storey and a loft and four bays, flanked at right angles by ranges with one storey and three bays. The openings include stable doors, windows and a pitching door.[35]
A house in sandstone, with a raised eaves course, and a slate roof with copedgables and block kneelers. There are two storeys, two bays, and an extension to the left. The doorway has an architrave, the windows are sashes, and all the openings have tooled lintels.[36]
The public house is in sandstone, and has a pantile roof with copedgables, shaped kneelers and ball and pedestalfinials. There are two storeys and attics, a main front of four bays, a lean-to on the left, and a rear wing with two storeys and two bays. The central doorway has a shaped tooled lintel, to its left is a fire window, to the right is a cantedbay window, the other windows are tripartite, and in the roof are two flat dormers with casements. In the right gable end is a relief "F" in a circular surround with keystones.[37]
The walls enclosing the grounds, and the gate piers, are in sandstone. The west wall has chamferedcoping, and the north and east walls have sloped coping. The walls contain gateways flanked by piers with overhanging pyramidal caps and some with urn finials.[38]
The milepost on the northeast side of the A171 road is in cast-iron, and has a triangular plan and a sloping triangular top. On the top is inscribed "NY RCC", and on the faces are pointing hands, with the distance to Whitby on the left face, and on the right face the distance to Guisborough.[41]
The church, designed by E. H. Smales, is in sandstone with a stone slate roof, and incorporates earlier material. It consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel with a vestry and organ chamber, and a southwest tower. The tower has three stages, angle buttresses, and an octagonal stair turret to the southeast with a hipped roof. It contains a south doorway with a trefoil head, above which are blind round arches, clock faces, paired louvred bell openings, a Lombard frieze, and a saddleback roof with pierced roundels in the gables.[39][42]
The churchyard walls are in sandstone with sloped coping, and contain triangular piers with chamfered flat caps. The main entrance is flanked by cylindrical piers with criss-cross incisions and conical caps. In the north wall are two pinnacles in the form of tourelles with conical caps. The pedestrian gate is in wrought iron with pomegranate finials.[43]
The house, which incorporates 17th-century material, is in sandstone, and has a stone slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. On the front are two doorways, the right one with a chamfered and quoined surround and a dated lintel. The windows are sashes, those to the right of the doorways are paired under a relieving arch. In the upper floor is a recessed date panel.[44]
A range of cartsheds, byres and stables, later converted for residential use, in rusticatedsandstone, with a stepped eavescorbel table, and a slate roof with copedgables, moulded kneelers, and ball and pedestalfinials. There is one storey and attics, and eight bays. The openings include square-headed cart arches, stable doors and windows, including two gabled dormers. On the gables are carved trefoils and pointed ball finials.[45]
A country house that was extended in 1913, and later reduced, in sandstone with slate roofs, and an irregular plan. The entrance front has a block of two storeys and attics and four bays, and flanking two-storey one-bay projecting wings. There is a moulded sill band, a cornice, a moulded eaves cornice, and a copedparapet on the wings, balustraded across the front. On the front is a porch with attached Tuscan columns, and the windows are sash windows. On the garden front are three gabled bays and a three-bay extension. It contains a pedimentedIonic porch.[46][47]
The outbuildings are in sandstone with slate roofs, copedgables, and ball and pedestalfinials. The oldest part is a stable range and there are later extensions. The stable range has one storey and attics, and five bays, projecting from it is a single-storey five-bay range of outbuildings, and there is an extension with one storey and 5½ bays.[48]
The outbuildings are in sandstone on a chamferedplinth, with slate roofs, copedgables, and ball and pedestalfinials, and they consist of a house, garages and stables. The house has two storeys and three bays, and is flanked by a single-storey two-bay range on the right and a single-storey single-bay range on the left, and at right angles is a single-storey five-bay stable range. The main range has a gabled central bay, string courses, a round-headed doorway with a hood mould, sash windows, and two inscribed panels over the doorway.[49]
The cross on Castle Hill, also known as the Swinsty Cross, commemorates Francis Titcomb, who died following a plane crash on the hill in 1917. It is in local stone and consists of a blind wheel-head cross with a carving of the Crucifixion. This is on a tapering column with stepped capital, standing on a cube with panels on the sides, one with initials and a date, on a base on a square platform.[50]