Sessay Church of England School and Masters House
SESSAY CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150691
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sessay Church of England School and Masters House
- Statutory Address:
- SESSAY CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150691
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sessay Church of England School and Masters House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SESSAY CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- SESSAY CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sessay
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46408 74759
Details
SESSAY CHURCH LANE SE 47 SE (east side) 7/30 Sessay Church of England School and Masters House GV II School with master's house. 1848 by William Butterfield for Viscount Downe; enlarged 1874, 1910 and 1949 (Sessay typescript, p 22). Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; graduated stone slate roof. Single storey; on left, L-shaped 2-bay schoolroom, the right bay projecting under gable; on right, in line with gable, 2-bay master's house with rear outshut. Quoins, quoined openings. House: central timber porch with 3-light window to left and 2-light window to right; to far right, offset lateral stack with octagonal flue; another, corniced, stack to rear. School: gabled right-hand bay has paired, pointed-arched, 2-light transomed windows with cusped heads and Decorated-style tracery; on left roof pitch is shallower over chamfered, triangular-headed doorway with board door up steps; small clock between door and windows; offset corniced stack in left-hand roof slope. Left bay has cat- slide roof over outshut on right. Left gable has a 2-light, transomed, Decorated- style window. Rear additions not of special interest. Sessay, a parish to be proud of (typescript held in Northallerton Reference Library).
Listing NGR: SE4640874759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332888
- 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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