School
SCHOOL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132049
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- School
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132049
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Masham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 22612 80756
Details
SE 2280-2380 MASHAM MARKET PLACE (north side)
7/73 School (formerly listed as Grammar School) 9.8.66
GV II
School. Mid C18, early and late C19. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings. Graduated stone slate and machine-tile roofs. 4 blocks. Western block: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Central 4-panel door with stone lintel. Right-hand bay has C20 casement with an unequally-hung 12-pane sash above, both have stone lintels and sills. Left-hand bay has tall C19 cross window with hood-mould. End stacks. Block next to western block: 1 storey, 3 bays. Central gabled porch with 6-panel door under hood-mould and plaque above inscribed 'This school house was rebuilt and enlarged in the year 1834 by Anne widow of William Danby esquire'. Shaped kneelers and ashlar coping. Above porch is 2-light mullion window with hood-mould. Outer bays have a cross-window with hood-mould. All windows have diagonal glazing bars. Corbelled cornice. Central bay has gablet with shaped kneelers and stone coping; inset an arched bell opening with bell. Hipped roof. Block next to eastern block: c1760. 1 storey, 3 bays. Plinth, chamfered quoins. All windows are arched with stone Gibbs surrounds, sills with brackets. Continuous impost band. Gothic arched sashes. Central window is taller than outer windows. Eaves band. Hipped roof with machine tiles. To right a pedimented porch, doorway now with C20 casement, Gibbs surround. Eastern block: late C19. 1 storey, 1 bay. Tripartite window with casements, plain stone surround, sill band with bracket. Cornice, pediment with keyed blind oculus.
Listing NGR: SE2261280756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 325063
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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