Egremont is a civil parish in the Cumberland district, Cumbria, England. It contains 26 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the town of Egremont and the surrounding countryside. The oldest listed building is Egremont Castle; this and associated structures are listed. Most of the other listed buildings are houses and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings. The other listed buildings include churches, cemetery buildings, shops, two former toll houses, a milestone, a monument, a town hall, a drinking fountain, and two war memorials.
The house is rendered and has a slate roof with stone copedgables. There are two storeys, three bays, and the house has a T-shaped plan. The doorway has an architrave and a cornice, and the windows are sashes in architraves. The barn is at right angles, in stone, and has quoins, a wagon door, two rows of ventilation slits, and a blocked mullioned window.[5]
Originally a house, later a shop, in pebbledashed stone with an angle pilaster on the right and a slate roof. There are two storeys and two bays. In the ground floor is a 19th-century shop front with a cornice and panelled pilasters, and above are sash windows in stone surrounds and a datestone.[6]
Originally a house, later a shop, it is roughcast on a plinth, with a pilaster at the left end and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. To the left is a door in a stone surround, in the centre is a large shop window, and at the right is a wagon arch with a moulded elliptical head and flanked by columns.[7]
A house and a cottage, both in rendered stone and with slate roofs that have copedgables. No. 59 has three storeys and five bays. In the centre is a Tudor arched porch with angle buttresses and a doorway with a chamfered surround. The windows are mullioned and transomed, those in the ground floor with cornices. No. 60 to the right, originally two cottages, has two storeys and three bays. The windows are mullioned with sashes.[8][9]
The sundial is in the grounds of Egremont Castle. It is set on a square plinth, and consists of an inscribed stone drum surmounted by a stone block with a tapering octagonal finial. The sides of the block are each incised with a vertical sundial grid. The gnomons are missing.[10]
A pebbledashed house with a slate roof, in two storeys and four bays. Steps with wrought iron handrails lead up to the doorway. To the right is a garage door, and the windows are sashes.[11]
Two stuccoed houses and a cottage. No. 54 is on the left, and has a slate roof, two storeys, and two bays. Nos. 55 and 56 have a plinth, rusticatedquoins, a cornice, and a tiled roof. There are three storeys and five bays, and on the front is a paired Tuscan porch. The windows in all the houses are sashes.[8][13]
The milestone is in sandstone, and consists of a square block about 2 feet (0.61 m) high with a chamfered top set diagonally to the road. On the south face is a rectangular cast iron plate showing the distances in miles to Whitehaven. The plate from the north face is missing.[14]
The walls are on the south and west sides of the garden. They are in rubble on a tapering plinth, and have flat coping and corner pilasters. They are between 8 feet (2.4 m) and 10 feet (3.0 m) high, and are ramped to the northeast and southwest.[15]
Originally a toll house, later a private house, it is stuccoed, and has a slate roof with copedgables and finials. The house has a single storey, and on the front, to the left, is a gabled porch with a chamfered surround and a four-centred arched head. To the right is a cantedbay window with a cornice, and on the right return is a three-light window. All the windows are 20th-century replacements, retaining original chamfered surrounds and mullions.[2][17]
At the entrance to the cemetery is a stone lodge on a chamferedplinth, with quoins, and a slate roof with copedgables and finials. It has two storeys and three bays, a gabled porch, and sash windows. There is a wall, about 7 feet (2.1 m) high, with moulded coping, square gate piers, about 10 feet (3.0 m) high, with a moulded plinth and a corniced cap, and cast iron gates.[18]
The monument, between the cemetery chapels, commemorates a local benefactor. It is in stone, in Decorated Gothic style, and is about 10 feet (3.0 m) high. The monument consists of a plinth on two steps, and has clustered shafts with foliate capitals. The top is gabled with crockets and apex crosses, and is surmounted by an octagon and a tapered finial.[23][24]
A stone house attached to the Town Hall, it has quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The house has a door with a fanlight and a segmental head. The windows are sashes, also with segmental heads.[28]
The drinking fountain and water trough stand opposite the entrance to the castle grounds, and are in polished grey and pink granite. The fountain stands on three steps and has a square plinth, bowls on three faces, and corner shafts on consoles. At the top is a cornice and a fluted dome with a ball finial. The water trough is to the left.[30]
The war memorial stands at a road junction, and is in Aberdeengranite. It consists of an elaborate Celtic cross on a square plinth and a two-stepped base. The shaft has a wreath carved in relief, and it has an elaborate foot incorporating carved pediments and shields. On the front of the lower step are rifles carved in relief. The plinth carries an inscription and the names of those lost in the First World War, and there is another inscription on the upper step. On the left side is a tablet with an inscription and the names of those lost in the Second World War.[31]
The war memorial consists of a square graniteplinth with inscriptions, about 6 feet (1.8 m) high, on two steps. Standing on the plinth is life-size figure in bronze of a soldier leaning on a rifle. The memorial is surrounded by an oval enclosure of wrought iron railings, with a gate on the north side.[2][32]
