The Witching Post

The Witching Post is a public house located in Egton Village, likely dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations made in the late 18th century, and further changes in 1879 and 1923. The building is constructed from dressed and tooled sandstone and features pantile roofs. It is a low two-storey structure with a three-window earlier front on the left side and a higher two-storey, one-window front from the 19th century.

The gabled porch is part-glazed and contains a 19th-century six-panel door set in a chamfered and quoined doorway. To the right of the porch are large two-light mullioned windows with large-pane 20th-century glazing, one of which is located on the ground floor beneath a relieving arch. The building has coped gables and end stacks, with vestiges of a blocked fire window to the left of the porch. The remaining ground floor windows have been altered and also feature 20th-century glazing, while the first floor has six-pane sash windows with stone sills. The eaves are corbelled, and the left gable has a shaped kneeler inscribed with "19 JKF 23."

At the rear, the gable end of the wing from the earlier part of the building includes a one-light chamfered stone window surround. The left return features a small 12-pane sash window in a chamfered stone surround.

Inside, the room to the left of the entrance has an inglenook fireplace with a chamfer-stopped bressummer and timber heck. There is an enlarged fireplace cupboard to the right and a blocked saltbox or spice cupboard. The interior also includes a chamfer-stopped beam and quarter-round moulded joists, as well as a chamfered and wave-stopped beam with part of St. Andrew's cross visible over the door beside the heck, which may be a reused part of a witch post.

The 20th-century porch is not of special interest.