Croft-on-Tees is a civil parish in the former Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains * listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, * listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.

Grade Criteria[1]
I Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important
II Buildings of national importance and special interest

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Name and location Photograph Date Notes Grade
Church of St Peter
54°28′59″N 1°33′21″W / 54.48315°N 1.55581°W / 54.48315; -1.55581 (Church of St Peter)
 
12th century The church has been altered and extended through the centuries, including restorations in 1876 and 1887. It is built in red and brown sandstone, with roofs of Westmorland slate and lead. The church consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry, and a southwest tower. The tower has two stages, a stepped buttress, a string course, a two-light pointed-arched window, a sundial, a clock face with coats of arms in the corners, bell openings with pointed heads, and an embattled parapet. The porch has a double-chamfered arch on corbel capitals, and contains medieval tombstones used as benches. The inner doorway has a moulded pointed arch. There is an embattled parapet on the nave.[2][3] I
Croft Bridge
54°28′59″N 1°33′15″W / 54.48310°N 1.55418°W / 54.48310; -1.55418 (Croft Bridge)
 
14th century (probable) The bridge, which has been restored and widened, is in sandstone, and about 160 metres (520 ft) long. It consists of six double-chamfered pointed arches, with triangular cutwaters which rise to form semi-octagonal refuges. The parapet projects on shield-shaped brackets on the downstream side, and on modillions on the upstream side. There is a dated plaque with an illegible inscription, the end walls are splayed, and have terminal cylindrical piers with ogee-domed caps.[4][5] I
Clow Beck packhorse bridge
54°29′05″N 1°34′05″W / 54.48481°N 1.56800°W / 54.48481; -1.56800 (Clow Beck packhorse bridge)
 
15th century (possible) The packhorse bridge crossing Clow Beck is in limestone with some brick. It consists of two segmental arches, each with voussoirs, forming a bent bridge. The central pier has a rounded cutwater on the upstream side, and the low parapet has chamfered coping. The deck is cobbled.[6][7] II
Croft Hall
54°28′50″N 1°33′26″W / 54.48059°N 1.55718°W / 54.48059; -1.55718 (Croft Hall)
 
15th century A manor house that has been much altered, in roughcast red sandstone, with painted stone dressings, on a chamfered plinth, with chamfered rusticated quoins, a coped parapet, and a hipped tile roof. There are three storeys and an L-shaped plan, with a front range of four bays, and a rear wing on the right. The central doorway has a fanlight with decorative glazing and a keystone, and the windows are sashes with keystones. The right return has two bays, and contains a French window.[8][9] II
Jolby Manor
54°29′11″N 1°36′13″W / 54.48647°N 1.60363°W / 54.48647; -1.60363 (Jolby Manor)
 
Early to mid 17th century A manor house in sandstone, with chamfered rusticated quoins and a tile roof. There are two storeys and attics, and an L-shaped plan, with a main range of five bays and a rear wing. The doorway is in the centre, and the windows either have a single light or chamfered mullions and hood moulds. In the centre is a dormer in a stone coped gable with shaped kneelers, and below it is a moulded panel. In the angle at the rear is a re-set doorway with a moulded surround, a stepped base, a cornice on consoles and pedimented moulding.[6][10] II
Garden wall, Ashgrove
54°28′52″N 1°33′21″W / 54.48119°N 1.55583°W / 54.48119; -1.55583 (Garden wall, Ashgrove)
Late 17th to early 18th century The garden wall runs to the south for about 30 metres (98 ft). It is in red sandstone, about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, and has brick-on-end coping.[11] II
Monk End Hall
54°29′03″N 1°33′29″W / 54.48414°N 1.55812°W / 54.48414; -1.55812 (Monk End Hall)
 
Early 18th century II
Gate pier and wall, Monk End Hall
54°29′01″N 1°33′24″W / 54.48356°N 1.55653°W / 54.48356; -1.55653 (Gate pier and wall, Monk End Hall)
Early 18th century (probable) The gate pier and wall are in red sandstone. The pier has a square plan and a stepped top, and is about 3 metres (9.8 ft) high. The wall extends for about 4 metres (13 ft), it is about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, and contains a doorway.[12] II
Gate piers and walls, Croft Hall
54°28′52″N 1°33′27″W / 54.48108°N 1.55747°W / 54.48108; -1.55747 (Gate piers and walls, Croft Hall)
 
Early 18th century At the entrance to the drive are two gate piers in painted stone with a square plan, in chamfered rustication on square bases, with entablatures, cornices and urns on stepped bases. They are flanked by quadrant walls, partly roughcast, with brown sandstone coping. These end in brown stone piers with a square plan and cornice caps with pyramidal tops.[13] II
Farmhouse and outbuildings,
East Vince Moor
54°27′38″N 1°33′44″W / 54.46054°N 1.56218°W / 54.46054; -1.56218 (Farmhouse and outbuildings, East Vince Moor)
 
Mid 18th century The farmhouse is in red brick, with stone dressings, and a pantile roof with stone coped gables and kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays, and a later rear range. In the centre is a gabled porch with a four-centred arched opening, and a doorway with a fanlight. The windows are casements with wedge lintels. To the right is a stable with two hay loft openings.[14] II
Bay Horse Farmhouse
54°28′11″N 1°32′54″W / 54.46962°N 1.54841°W / 54.46962; -1.54841 (Bay Horse Farmhouse)
 
Late 18th to early 19th century The farmhouse, later a private house, is in brick, with stepped eaves, and a pantile roof with raised verges and stepped brick kneelers. There are two storeys and two bays. In the centre is a doorway converted into a casement window, and the other windows are horizontally-sliding sashes with flat arches.[15] II
The Croft Hotel
54°28′57″N 1°33′22″W / 54.48250°N 1.55614°W / 54.48250; -1.55614 (The Croft Hotel)
 
1808 The hotel, which was extended in 1835 by Ignatius Bonomi, is roughcast with a Welsh slate roof, and has two storeys and an irregular plan. The main entrance block projects slightly, and has a coped gable acting as a pediment. There are three bays, and in the centre is a porch with square Tuscan porch and a flat roof. The block is flanked by two bays on the left and three on the right. All the windows are sashes, the window above the doorway with an architrave and a pediment. To the left is the ballroom block, taller, with four bays, and in the right bay is a Tuscan doorway with a pediment. To the right is the former coach house, also lower, with a pantile roof and six bays. In the ground floor are segmental-arched openings, and the upper floor contains horizontally-sliding sash windows.[6][16] II
Ashgrove
54°28′53″N 1°33′22″W / 54.48134°N 1.55608°W / 54.48134; -1.55608 (Ashgrove)
Early to mid 19th century A cottage in grey-brown brick, with oversailing eaves, and Welsh slate roofs, with stone coping on the left, and hipped on the right. There is one storey, a three-depth plan, and a front of two bays. The round-arched doorway contains a fanlight with decorative glazing bars, and the windows are sashes. In the left return are three bays divided by pilasters.[17] II
Bridge House
54°28′56″N 1°33′18″W / 54.48209°N 1.55509°W / 54.48209; -1.55509 (Bridge House)
Early to mid 19th century The house is in brown brick on a stone plinth, with a floor band, oversailing eaves, and a hipped Westmorland slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with a stone architrave and a fanlight with decorative glazing, flanked by segmental bay windows. In the upper floor are sash windows with wedge lintels. The right return has two bays and contains a French window and a square bay window.[18] II
Entrance gateway, Bridge House
54°28′56″N 1°33′21″W / 54.48218°N 1.55571°W / 54.48218; -1.55571 (Entrance gateway, Bridge House)
Early to mid 19th century The gateway is in wrought iron, and contains a central pair of gates with swept tops, square bars, scrolled lower panels and mid-panels of interlocking circles, and box-section gate piers. The standards have cast iron finials, and in the centre of the top rail of the gates is a deer's head.[19] II
Former coach house, Clervaux Castle
54°28′33″N 1°35′02″W / 54.47588°N 1.58400°W / 54.47588; -1.58400 (Former coach house, Clervaux Castle)
c. 1843 The coach house, later used for other purposes, was designed by Ignatius Bonomi and John Augustus Cory. It is in red sandstone with quoins, embattled parapets, a Westmorland slate roof, and nine bays. In the first bay is a three-storey tower, containing a doorway with a quoined surround, a ladder to the hay loft, and a clock in the upper storey. The other bays have two storeys, and the openings include a carriage entrance, doorways, a pitching hole, and slit vents.[6][20] II
Column and urn northeast of the walled garden
54°27′19″N 1°35′57″W / 54.45533°N 1.59918°W / 54.45533; -1.59918 (Column and urn northeast of the walled garden)
19th century A stone garden feature in the grounds of Halnaby Hall, which was demolished in 1952. It consists of a granite Doric column on a plinth, on a base of three square steps. On the column is an urn with handles of intertwined serpents, and with the sides decorated with male masks.[21] II

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