The Manor House

The Manor House, originally East Appleton Hall, is a manor house dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with restoration work carried out around 1890. It was built for the Croft family. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a C20 concrete interlocking tile roof. It follows an H-plan and is two storeys high, arranged with a 1:4:1 bay configuration, with the outer bays projecting as narrow wings and a shorter two-storey range to the west.

The south elevation features a plinth and quoins to the right wing and between bays four and five. A board door is set in a quoined, chamfered surround with a triangular soffit to the lintel and a hood-mould in the fourth bay. Most of the windows are replacements from the 19th century, featuring chamfered mullions. Ground-floor windows in the second and fifth bays are two-light with hood-moulds, while the third bay has a two-light window. The first floor has three-light mullion windows in the second, fourth, and fifth bays; a blocked surround for an original two-light window is visible in the second bay. The left wing features a two-light window with a hood-mould on the ground floor and a single-light window in the gable. The right wing has a similarly positioned ground-floor window and single-light windows on the return, likely marking the site of the staircase. Shaped kneelers and ashlar copings to the gable ends of the wings are present. Corniced ashlar stacks are located in the second bay and at the end of the right wing, the latter having been repaired in brick. A range to the left has a sash window with glazing bars and a glazed door on the ground floor, and a tripartite sash window on the first floor. A brick stack is at the left end.

The rear elevation displays a corbelled first-floor external stack on the north-east wing. The right return has a large external stack, a two-light window with a hood-mould on the ground floor, and a single-light window on the first floor. The north-east wing contains a board door in a quoined, chamfered surround with a triangular soffit to the lintel, and three-light windows with hood-moulds on both the ground and first floors.

Inside, the ground-floor sitting room in the right wing has a large fireplace with an asymmetrical chamfered segmental arch. Richard Braithwaite, a court poet to James I and author of "Drunken Barnaby's" Itinerary, died at the house in 1673 and is buried in Catterick Church.