78 High Street
78, High Street, Northallerton, DL7 8EG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189057
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 78 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 78, High Street, Northallerton, DL7 8EG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189057
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 78 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78, High Street, Northallerton, DL7 8EG
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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:
- 78, High Street, Northallerton, DL7 8EG
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 36847 94124
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 May 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 3694-3794
6/11
NORTHALLERTON
HIGH STREET (east side)
No 78
(Formerly listed as No 78 (The Rutson Hospital))
9.12.69
GV
II
House, hospital at time of listing. Early and mid C18, of two builds, with later alterations. Rendered, pantile roof. Two storeys, 2:5 bays. On ground floor to left, ashlar quoined, basket-arched doorway to passage. Four-pane sash windows with exposed flush sash boxes, on first floor in third-seventh bays set higher than those in first two bays. Shaped kneeler and ashlar coping between second and third bay; large ridge stack in third bay.
Interior: ground-floor room in sixth and seventh bays has early C18 dado and wooden fielded panels separated by fluted pilasters which break forward on cornice, fielded panel window shutters, round-arched door of six fielded panels, and simple fire surround with egg-and-dart motif flanked by round-arched cupboards with leaved fielded panel doors and keyed architraves; at rear, early-mid C18 open-well staircase with column-on-vase turned balusters, three per step, and wreathed handrail.
No 78 was the home of Robert Raikes Fulthorpe Esq, and called Vine House, having in 1789 the largest vine in England, 137 square yards in extend, with a trunk circumference of almost 4 feet. The Quarter Sessions were held here 1720-70, in the mid C19 it became the Post Office, and in 1877 a cottage hospital.
Rev J L Saywell, The History and Annals of Northallerton (1885), pp 141, 200, appendix px; VCH i, p 420.
Listing NGR: SE3684794124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 420
Saywell, Reverend J L, The History and Annals of Northallerton, (1885), 141
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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