Scargill Castle

Scargill Castle is a 15th-century castle gatehouse with flanking fragmentary walls, located on Scargill Chapel Lane. It features large blocks of squared sandstone and stone-flagged roofs. The gatehouse is gabled and three stories high, with a partly-blocked depressed-pointed archway that has thin voussoirs and a pair of 20th-century doors. There is a chamfered window surround and a similar, smaller surround above. An external stack rises from the first-floor level of the right return. A semicircular stair tower with chamfered slit openings, a set-back top section, and a monopitch roof is attached to the rear of the left return. To the left is a featureless section of high wall, while a longer section of wall to the right has a chamfered first-floor window surround. The rear of the gatehouse is similar to the front.

Inside, the ground floor of the tower has a grooved, slightly-cambered transverse ceiling beam of heavy scantling. A chamfered doorway with large alternating jambs leads into the stair tower, where a spiral stone stair leads to first- and second-floor chamfered doorways with run-out stops. Further fragments of castle masonry at the rear include the left jamb and back wall of a wide, arched fireplace. The structure was in dangerous condition at the time of the survey. Scargill Castle is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.