Whilst the area itself is mentioned in the Domesday Book, the village was built largely due to the development of the ironstone industry in the Cleveland Hills.

[1] The settlement of Hutton Lowcross is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Robert of Mortain, and having ten villagers and one priest.

[3] The name of the settlement has been recorded with various spellings and spaces, with Hutton Low Cross being quite prominent in the late 19th century.

[8][9][10] A nunnery was founded at Hutton Lowcross in the middle of the 12th century; however, the nuns soon moved on to another site in Nunthorpe, further west.

[19] In 1864, Sir Joseph Pease employed Alfred Waterhouse to design Hutton Hall, a large country house to the north of the village.

[24] It is now in the civil parish of Guisborough, part of the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority in North Yorkshire.