240, HIGH STREET
240, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150717
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 240, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 240, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150717
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 240, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 240, HIGH STREET
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:
- 240, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northallerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36746 94167
Details
SE 3694-3794
6/60
NORTHALLERTON,
HIGH STREET (west side),
No. 240
(Formerly listed as Nos 240 and 241.
Previously listed as No 241 (The Old Grammar School)
15.4.86
GV II
Grammar school, now offices. 1776, altered and extended 1844. Brick in Flemish
bond, pantile roof. L-shaped plan, 2 storeys, 3 bays to High Street. Ground floor:
4-pane sash windows below lintel and segmental relieving arch in panel, recessed
within painted, round arch with impost band. First floor: 8-pane sash windows.
Dentil cornice. Hipped roof. End eaves stacks. To left, recessed single-storey
screen wall with C20 part-glazed door, not of special interest. Right return:
impost band and cornice return, 1 matching ground-floor window, 1 blind first-floor
window. Further right, probably an added house, of slightly lower storeys: 6-panel
door and 16-pane sash window on ground floor, round-arched staircase sash window
with glazing bars, radial at the top, and 16-pane sash window on first floor; dentil
cornice, stack at right end. The medieval grammar school stood in the churchyard
and was replaced by this building, then also on church land.
Rev J L Saywell, The History and Annals of Northallerton (1885), pp 31, 131, 176
and iv.
Listing NGR: SE3674294159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332854
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saywell, Reverend J L, The History and Annals of Northallerton, (1885), 31, 131
Saywell, Reverend J L, The History and Annals of Northallerton, (1885), 176
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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