Description

NORTHALLERTON HIGH STREET SE 3694-3794 (east side) 6/5 No 48 (Standard House) GV II

House, now offices. Early-mid C19 with late C19 alterations. Red/brown brick in Flemish bond, Westmorland slate roof. Regency villa of L-shaped plan with wing to rear left; 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central door of 6 fielded panels below fanlight in doorcase with Doric half-columns, frieze and cornice. Flanking, on the ground floor, late-C19 square bay windows with hipped roofs added and breaking first floor band. First-floor 4-pane sash windows with flat arches. Hipped roof. End eaves stacks. The name of the house commemorates the Battle of the Standard which took place on Cowton Moor, 3 miles north of Northallerton, on Monday 22 October 1138, between Scotland and England, which was won by England. Included for group value. Ref J L Saywell, The History and Annals of Northallerton (1885), pp 9-14.

Listing NGR: SE3670894347

External Links

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