22/08/2026
🏰 AN EXCITING PIECE OF CASTLE BY THE SEA’S HISTORY HAS BEEN FOUND! 🏰
After contacting North Yorkshire Archives, we have received a really positive reply — and, excitingly, they have located several original historic building control records connected with our property and the neighbouring site at Mulgrave Place, formerly known as Charnel Garth.
One of the earliest records they found is:
📜 RED 1123 – Detached House
6 February 1868
“Plans of a detached house residence for Thomas Jarvis Esq. which he proposes to build.”
They also located:
📜 RED 1151 – Stables
12 March 1868
Plans relating to the building of a lock-up shop, stable and coach house.
And later:
📜 RED 3151 – Extensions and Alterations
18 August 1887
This is such an exciting breakthrough for us because it gives us genuine archive evidence relating to the development of the land around what became Castle By The Sea.
We have spent a long time trying to piece together the true story of the house, the surrounding buildings, Thomas Jarvis, neighbouring properties and the earlier history of Charnel Garth / Mulgrave Place.
Finding records dating back to 1868 takes us another step closer to understanding exactly what stood here, who built it, how the site developed and how Castle By The Sea fits into the wider Victorian history of Scarborough.
The next exciting step will be trying to view the surviving original plans themselves. If they still contain the drawings submitted with these applications, they could potentially show the footprint, layout, outbuildings and appearance of the site more than 150 years ago.
It really does feel like we are slowly bringing the forgotten story of this little corner of Scarborough back to life. ❤️🏰🌊
More history to come…
Happy Saturday 💙
Daniel 😁
