Burton Agnes Manor House

Manor house, with origins around 1170-1175 for Roger de Stuteville, featuring a 15th-century roof and outer walls constructed between 1601 and 1610, with later alterations, including likely early to mid-18th-century window replacements. The building is constructed of pinkish-red brick in English bond with magnesian limestone ashlar dressings, while the rear and west sides are of coursed magnesian limestone. The roof is concealed. It is three storeys high and four bays wide. The ground floor has a 2-course chamfered plinth and quoins. The entrance to the fourth bay is a 20th-century plank door within a chamfered round ashlar arch. Windows on the front facade consist of 6-pane sashes on the ground floor, 12-pane sashes on the first floor, and 6-pane sashes on the second floor, all within double-chamfered, ovolo-moulded ashlar surrounds. A cavetto-moulded cornice runs along the top. On the north side, the ground floor has three blocked segmentally-arched openings, one blocked straight-headed opening, and remnants of a lancet window with a chamfered surround. The first floor shows the remains of a further blocked round-arched opening. An ashlar chimney rises from the first-floor level, supported by a corbel table. The east side has a blocked entrance within a double-chamfered surround and similar window arrangement to the front facade. A blocked window opening breaks the moulded first-floor band on the west side, accompanied by a chamfered ashlar architrave framing a two-light mullion window and a slit window.

The interior contains a 12th-century undercroft of four bays by two, with short, thick-set round piers featuring spurs at the bases, square abaci, and waterleaf capitals. Holes are visible on the westernmost pier, likely for "Nine Men's Morris." The vaulted ceilings have single-chamfered ribs. A pointed arch leads to a spiral staircase in the north-west corner, which rises to the two-storey former great hall. Within the great hall, remains are seen of a blocked pointed window with Perpendicular tracery in the head of the west wall, as well as a fireplace. Window openings are deeper internally on the south and west facades, indicating the original positions of Elizabethan windows. A segmentally-arched window remains on the north wall. The roof incorporates arch braces supported by corbels, chamfered tie beams, a dentil cornice, exposed rafters, and a moulded ridge purlin.