Egton Manor

Egton Manor is a shooting box, later adapted as a country house, built in 1893. It was enlarged in 1913 and underwent major remodelling, including partial demolition, in 1979, originally for the Foster family. The building is constructed from C19 hammered sandstone, with subsequent extensions and rebuilding in herringbone-tooled sandstone, and features sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The layout is irregular.

The entrance front is two and three-storey with an attic, comprising a four-window central range flanked by two-storey, one-window projecting wings. An off-centre, single-storey porch is attached, featuring Tuscan angle columns. The main entrance door is a six-panel design, set beneath a painted low relief of the Foster bugles. The porch is flanked by twelve-pane sashes, with an eight-pane sash at the right end. A sash window at the left-hand corner, located within the lowest stage of an extruded stack, includes a twelve-pane sash and a flat hood beneath a carved representation of a dragon and flames. The return of the left wing showcases a single-storey, three-window canted bay, topped with a plain, coped parapet. The remaining ground-floor and first-floor windows are twelve-pane sashes, while the attic windows are four-pane sashes, all set within plain, raised surrounds. Moulded sills are present on the first floor and attic, with a moulded sill band and cornice across the ground and first floors. The eaves cornice is moulded, and the wings feature a plain, coped parapet with balustrades along the fronts. Rainwater goods are dated 1913. The building includes an extruded stack with an arched bell opening, an oval domed canopy, and a flue bank. The roof is hipped at the right end.

The garden front incorporates a C19 section of two storeys and an attic, with three gabled bays, and a slightly projecting three-bay C20 extension on the right. A shallow, pedimented Ionic porch, situated in the right-hand end bay of the C19 section, contains a radial glazed door beneath a keyed arch supported by Ionic pilasters. The original doorway to the right has been blocked and replaced with a twelve-pane sash. Two tall, paired thirteen-pane sashes are positioned above the present door, to the left, alongside a panel carved with the garlanded Foster Arms and the date 1913. The remaining ground-floor and first-floor windows to the left of the porch are four-pane sashes. The attic windows are triple sashes. All windows have plain raised surrounds and moulded sills, except those on the ground floor to the left. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the entire length. Fine moulded rainwater goods are present. The C20 extension is articulated by pilasters, and features twelve-pane sashes in plain, raised surrounds, with sill bands on the ground floor and moulded sills on the first floor. First floor and eaves cornices are present. The plain parapet over the left bay rises to form a shaped attic gable on the right, accommodating a triple sash window with moulded sill beneath a cornice hoodmould over the centre light. Pilasters rise into the parapet to form piers, surmounted by ball and pedestal finials. A rectangular panel in the centre of the first floor displays a garlanded bugle and the date 1913.