Nunthorpe Hall, Nunthorpe Village

Manor house, c.1623, largely rebuilt and extended c.1800 and altered mid-C19. Mid/late C19 north-east service extensions. Entrance porch and projecting bay of garden front added 1901. Converted to home for elderly 1951. Dressed sandstone; Lakeland slate roofs, with stone ridge copings. 7-bay (south) garden front has slightly-projecting centre bay, with doorway, up 2 steps. Arms of Pease and Gurney quartered in tympanum. Sash windows with glazing bars, in hollow-chamfered flat surrounds; 6-pane middle window in eared architrave. 2 corniced ridge stacks.

Church of St Cuthbert, Ormesby

The church of St. Cuthbert was almost entirely rebuilt in 1875, and the structure has therefore little or no antiquarian interest. A number of old stones, however, and other fragments of the ancient building are incorporated within the walls or are preserved inside the church. Three of these are of pre-Conquest date.

Old Vicarage, Norton

Mostly built in 1762 with C19 additions and alterations. Principal front, to north has 3 storeys and 6 windows – flush framed glazing bar sashes; painted with rebates. Rich red brick with occasional head or courses. Marley-tiled roof with coped verges and kneelers. Roughly central porch – closed brick projection with pilastered doorcase having a spoked fanlight in the pediment. Large brick 2 storey, 3-light bay on east gable end. Extensions of various dates at rear with a very large chimney to east.

Church of St Mary, Acklam

The church of St. Mary was entirely rebuilt in 1876 in the style of the 15th century. There is over the west gable an octagonal turret, surmounted by a short stone spire, containing one bell. The church is at least the third on the site, having replaced an 18th-century building described by Graves as a ‘small modern structure,’ consisting of chancel and nave, which about 1776 took the place of a medieval structure of uncertain date.

The Priory, Norton

A most attractive old house perhaps dating as far back as the 13th century extensively remodelled in the 17th century. Supposedly an early residence of the Bishop of Durham.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Norton

The church at Norton dates from the late Saxon period. It became a collegiate church in 1081, to provide maintenance for a number of canons removed from Durham Cathedral because they refused to wear the habit of the monks. Thomas Sheraton, the great cabinet maker was married in St Mary’s church.

Holy Trinity Church, Stockton

The church of the Holy Trinity, now in ruins, was completed in 1837 by John and Benjamin Green. It is a building in the Gothic style consisting of a chancel, nave with north and south aisles, north and south transepts and west tower with spire. The spire was taken down in February 1958.