The Old Grammar School and Grammar School House and Attached Wall and Railings

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NZ 1406-1506 KIRBY HILL VILLAGE GREEN (north side)

18/48 The Old Grammar School and Grammar School House (formerly listed as The Master's House and The 19.12.51 Grammar School) and attached wall and railings

GV II*

School and Hospital, later School and Master's House, the School partly converted into a holiday flat, the Master's House now a house; attached wall and railings. Main range c1556, for Rev John Dakyn, with early C18 addition to house, early C19 wall and railings. Rubble, partly coursed; stone slate roofs; wrought-iron railings. Main range: 2 storeys with partial attic and partial basement; 2-bay Master's House to left with C18 front range and with entry in left return; 3-bay school on right. Elevation to The Green: Master's House, to left, C18 range of coursed rubble with quoins and 16-pane sash windows in ashlar surrounds, formerly with flat-faced mullions; between the first-floor windows a sundial; shaped kneelers; ashlar coping; end stacks. Recessed to left of house: single-storey porch with quoins to left, board door and ashlar coping to left. School has, from left: blocked ashlar surround of doorway; board door in ashlar surround with 6-pane window over, and first-floor 3-light mullion window with round-arched lights and indented spandrels; 16-pane ground-floor sash window in ashlar surround with blocked fire window to its right, and on first floor a chamfered vent and 2-light matching mullion window with the school bell above; external stack with cornice and C19 stable of 2 lower storeys projecting from it and not of special interest. In front of house, low wall of coursed rubble with canted coping, supporting plain railings with pointed bars; the wall rises in height and has triangular coping to curve round and return to school to right, sweeping up towards school. Rear: quoins to left and ashlar coping to right; projecting gabled stair turret with blocked first-floor vent on right return; blocked basement 2-light round-arched mullion window; stepped buttress; ground-floor 2-light chamfered mullion window with internal stanchions; 2 first-floor chamfered vents; stepped buttress; ground-floor 2-light chamfered mullion window with internal stanchions; ground-floor 16-pane fixed-light window in ashlar surround; first-floor 4-light mullion window with round-arched lights and indented spandrels; 16-pane sash dormer window; ground-floor 2-light chamfered mullion window; ground-floor 2-light chamfered mullion window below C19 sash window with. glazing bars to staircase; 2-light first-floor mullion window with round-arched lights and indented spandrels; 16-pane ground-floor sash window in ashlar surround; round-arched ground-floor window, and above it a pedimented surround to a tablet inscribed in commemoration of Rev Robert Blackett of Durham d1829, above that a 4-pane sash window in early C18 ashlar surround, and above that a 16-pane sash window; ashlar coping; end stack. Right return (school): stepped buttresses flank a C20 20-pane sash window on each floor, with 4-pane fixed-light window in surround of 2-light chamfered mullion window in gable. Right return (house): door of 6 fielded panels below 4-pane overlight in ashlar surround; first-floor, 16-pane sash window. Left return (house): to C18 range, 2 ground-floor round-arched windows; to C16 range, single-storey porch built around external stack which is extended on corbels at first-floor level. Interior: house has doors and doorlinings of 6 fielded panels; recess in room to front left was probably the original doorway; early C19 dogleg staircase with stick balusters and turned newels: in the stair turret at the rear of the School, winder staircase. The School and blaster's House were founded, with the Hospital of St John the Baptist, by Rev John Dakyn DD, rector of the parish and one of Henry VIII's Commissioners who inquired into the income of the religious houses, also one of Queen Mary's persecutors of Protestant martyrs. T Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), pp 466-467; VCH i, p 97, W White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, (1840), pp 651-652.

Listing NGR: NZ1403706578

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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 97
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 466 467
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, (1840), 651 652

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