Deer Park House

Deer Park House is a former deerhouse and banqueting house, now serving as a residence. It was built between 1767 and 1768, possibly designed by John Carr of York, with contributions from carpenter Mr. Will Rowland, carver Mr. Shillito, and plasterer Mr. Henderson for Sir William St. Quintin, 4th Baronet. The house has 19th and 20th-century extensions and was restored around 1980. It features red brick in random bond, originally whitewashed, with sandstone dressings and has pantile and tile roofs. The building is square in plan with later extensions at the rear.

The structure is two stories tall, with a canted center bay flanked by one-story side bays. The central door consists of four sunk panels and is topped by an ogee-arched fanlight with round Gothick glazing, flanked by similarly styled windows on each side and in the side bays. The first-floor windows are pointed Gothick-glazed sashes, all with stone sills. Ground-floor openings have moulded brick hoods with return stops, and the ground-floor windows retain their original leaded glazing. A raised dentilled first-floor string creates an eaves cornice over the side bays, with a similar cornice over the center bay. The building features castellated parapets with flat coping stones, shaped in the center over a recessed blind trefoil, which mask the central pitched roof that has two rear stacks and pent flanking roofs.

The rear of the house has seen many alterations. Against the wall is a timber-cased cast-iron pump by W. Smiddy of Malton. The left and right returns contain original arcaded deer shelters that are now blocked by 20th-century windows, and there are pointed Gothick-glazed windows on the first floor, along with a raised dentilled eaves band.

The interior has not been fully recorded, but it includes doors and shutters with six raised and fielded panels throughout, a ground-floor chimney-piece and overmantel, and a first-floor room featuring a plaster ceiling with a design of garlanded hunting horns enclosed in a quatrefoil border, as well as plaster moulded wall panels. The 19th and 20th-century extensions are not of special interest.