Scarcroft Lodge (Yorkshire Electricity Board)

Scarcroft Lodge, now offices, was built around 1830, with additions made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with a Welsh blue-slate roof. The original house comprised five bays by five bays, to which extensions have been added to the left and rear. A plinth runs around the base. A distyle in antis Tuscan porch features a doorway with monolithic jambs and lintel, which extends over two narrow windows; carved oak double doors form the entrance. All bays contain sash windows with glazing bars. A casement-moulded cornice and blocking course with acroteria mark the top of the building. An ashlar stack is located at the junction of the original five-bay section and the later addition to the left. This addition is slightly set back and features a two-storey canted bay window in the fourth bay, with a similar blocking course and two stacks. The right-hand return elevation has sash windows with glazing bars, and a central two-storey segmental-bow window with two low stacks either side. A single-storey addition from the later 19th century projects to the right, arranged with three bays by one bay, and a central canted bay window. It has a hipped roof with inserted roof lights. A three-storey clock tower is set back to the right, with rusticated quoins, floor bands and corner pilasters; the third floor contains a clock set within a semicircular-arched window with architrave, impost and keystone, topped by a corniced and pierced ashlar parapet. A flag pole is located at the top. Later 20th-century extensions to the rear are not considered to be of special interest. The entrance hall features Greek Ionic columns forming a screen, and an arched stone fireplace.