Brandsby-cum-Stearsby is a civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 16 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Brandsby and Stearsby, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, and the others include a church and two mileposts.
A farmhouse in sandstone that has a pantile roof with mouldedcoping and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and an attic, and three bays. In the centre is a doorway, and the windows are sashes, all with flat arches and voussoirs.[2]
The farmhouse and cottage are in sandstone and have pantile roofs with stone coping and shaped kneelers, and two storeys. The farmhouse has three bays, an eaves band, and a blocked doorway. The windows are sashes, those in the upper floor horizontally-sliding. The cottage to the right is taller and has two bays. It contains a doorway with a fanlight and sash windows, and has a rear wing.[5]
The farm building is in sandstone, with quoins, an eaves band, and a pantile roof with mouldedcoping and shaped kneelers. There is a single storey and a loft, and three bays. It contains a doorway, a stable door and a shuttered window, and in the gable end is a Diocletian window. Attached is a screen wall containing a doorway.[6]
A farmhouse, later a private house, it is in sandstone and has pantile roofs with stone coping and moulded kneelers. There are two ranges, each with two bays and eaves bands. The lower range has a single storey and an attic, and contains a cantedbay window, a doorway with a fanlight and a lintel with a keystone, and dormers above. The taller range has two storeys and an attic, a plinth, a floor band, and sash windows, those in the upper floor horizontally-sliding, with lintels and keystones.[7]
The barn is in sandstone, and has a pantile roof with mouldedcoping and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and four bays. The openings include segmental-arched cart entries, some blocked or altered, and slit vents.[8]
The house and attached cottage are in sandstone and have pantile roofs with mouldedcoping and shaped kneelers. The house has two storeys and an attic and three bays, a plinth, a floor band, an eaves band, a central doorway and sash windows, some horizontally-sliding. The openings have cantileveredlintels and projecting keystones. The cottage is lower, with two storeys and one bay, and a floor band, and it contains sash windows with flat arches.[3][10]
The icehouse has a stone exterior, and consists of a rounded structure over an entrance tunnel. At the west end is an embattledgable with a round-arched opening. Inside is a short barrel-arched tunnel leading to a deep tapering cylindrical ice chamber in brick with domed roof.[3][12]
The church was designed by Thomas Atkinson and restored in 1905 by Temple Moore. It is built in sandstone with a hipped stone slate roof, and consists of a nave and a chancel with three bays in one range, a south porch and a vestry. Over the middle bay is a cupola with an oculus in the square base, eight round-arched openings with three-quarter columns, a Doricfrieze, and a stone dome with a ball finial and a weathervane. The windows on the sides of the church have round-arched heads, some with Gibbs surrounds, and at the east end is a Venetian window.[13][14]
The milepost on the north side of Brandsby Bank (B1363 road) is in cast iron and has a triangular plan and a sloping top. On the top is inscribed "BULMER WEST H.D" and on the sides are pointing hands. The left side indicates the distance to Helmsley, and on the right side is the distance to York.[17]
The milepost on the west side of the B1363 road is in cast iron and has a triangular plan and a sloping top. On the top is inscribed "BULMER WEST H.D" and on the sides are pointing hands. The left side indicates the distance to Helmsley, and on the right side is the distance to York.[18]
The house was designed by Detmar Blow, it was enlarged in 1903 by Alfred Powell, and a wing was added at right angles in 1977 by Martin Stanclifffe. It is in sandstone with pantile roofs, and has an irregular L-shaped plan, with two storeys and a loft. The windows are a mix of horizontally-sliding sashes and casements with segmental-arched heads.[19][20]
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