The Old Borough Of Scarborough Jail

The Old Borough of Scarborough Jail was built in 1866 by William Baldwin Stewart and Alexander Taylor. It closed in 1878 and is now used as a council depot. The jail features a stone-faced brick perimeter wall with a slate roof, designed in a Gothic style. The wall is crenellated and includes four turrets and arrow slits. The entrance is also crenellated and machicolated, featuring an elliptical arch with a grotesque corbel between four arrow slits, two on each side. Above the entrance is a circular plaque carved with the seal of the Borough and the inscription: SIGILLVM COMVNE BVRGERSIV.DE SCARDEBVRG.

On either side of the entrance, there are two three-storey turrets with three round-headed sash windows on the ground floor, a pointed two-light window with Y-tracery and transoms on the first floor, and two pointed sash windows on the third floor. The adjacent wall to the left is crenellated and two storeys high, featuring lancet windows arranged in pairs. To the right, there is also a crenellated wall with a gabled door, a three-light pointed sash window on the ground floor, and one and two-light pointed sash windows on the first floor.

The central block of the jail is three storeys high with a three-bay facade, a gabled entrance, and paired six-point sash windows. The stacks are corbelled out on either side of a lancet-lit central gable. The elevation consists of three storeys with ten bays and barred windows, and there is a ventilation shaft above the top-lit central wall. Inside, the original cell fittings and a spiral staircase have been preserved. The complex also includes a hexagonal guard room, which is one storey high with nine-pane sashes, and two ranges of one-storey workshops that have been much altered, along with two auxiliary rectangular stone houses.