A 1930s hair salon and a medieval hunting park are among dozens of sites across the North-East and North Yorkshire to be given protected status, Government body Historic England has announced.

Places and features given listed status by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport over the past year include a memorial window in the Church of St Lawrence, East Rounton, near Northallerton, to the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' Gertrude Bell.

Part of the window highlights her later career in the Middle East, where she was often the only European in camel trains and joined military intelligence during the First World War.

Heritage Minister Tracey Crouch said: "All of these places have a unique role in telling us the story of the people who built and used these structures, whether it's our earliest ancestors or today's commuters."

Buildings highlighting eras of history, such as the former Zetland Cocoa Rooms in Richmond - listed as an example of the aristocracy's role in the Victorian temperance movement and Muggleswick war memorial, near Consett, have also been protected.

A 3rd Century Roman villa near Bedale, uncovered during work to build a bypass, the Norman Bowes Castle and the Second World War heavy anti-aircraft gun battery at Lizard Lane, Sunderland, have become scheduled monuments.

One of the most unusual listings is a 1930s hair salon with private booths in Scarborough, which was popular with women who previously had their hair dressed by a maid in their own dressing room.

Other new listings focus on the region's industrial heritage, with several features of Skelton Park disused iron mine, in Cleveland, and the former Masham Mechanics' Institute, in Masham, being given grade II status.

The list also includes revisions to previously listed structures, such a tall pole in the playground of the former Townfield School, in Hunstanworth Model Village, near Consett.

Contemporary school log books revealed what was thought to be a maypole, was the centrepiece of a giant’s stride, a once common, but now very rare piece of playground equipment, that had been donated by a vicar in 1866.

Added to the parks and gardens register at grade II is a medieval hunting park at late 15th Century manor house Hornby Castle, near Bedale, which was transformed into a pleasure for Lord Holderness in the 1770s, possibly to a design by Capability Brown.