Description

SCORTON THE GREEN NZ 20 SE (north side) 7/61 Grammar School 4.2.69 GV II

School. 1760. For Rev John Noble. Brick, pantile roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, double-depth plan. First-floor bays divided by brick pilasters on double band, paired at the corners and rising into parapet. In first bay on ground floor, a 3-panel door below 12-pane overlight in rubbed-brick eared architrave with splayed bases on tall dado. Round-arched sash windows, on ground floor under brick header arches with projecting brick keystones, on first floor with brick stretcher surrounds and shaped brick aprons. Coat of arms in keyed oculus set in sandstone pediment over central bay and flanking half-bays. Hipped roof. Arcaded and corniced endstacks. Central clock tower with double quoin strips of chamfered rustication supported by scrolls. Wooden octagonal cupola with lead-covered roof and weathervane. The school was built by the first master of the school at his own expense. Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890), p 376).

Listing NGR: NZ2508800256

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