Grammar School
GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHESTNUT AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361319
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHESTNUT AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361319
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHESTNUT AVENUE
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:
- GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHESTNUT AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton-le-Dale
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 83570 83102
Details
THORNTON DALE CHESTNUT AVENUE SE 8383 (north side) 14/91 Grammar School 10.11.53 GV II Grammar School, now meeting hall. 1670, restored and extended C19. Founded under the terms of a Trust Deed executed by Lady Elizabeth Lumley in 1657. Coursed sandstone rubble on chamfered ashlar plinth; raised, chamfered ashlar quoins, ashlar dressings and stacks; graduated stone flag roof. Rectangular on plan, with extensions to rear and rear left. Single storey and attic, gable-end on street. Single 3-light C19 round-headed Perpendicular window beneath stopped hood-mould. Raised attic band, with recessed bell-opening above in gable-end, in rounded arch of two orders beneath a stopped hood-mould. Right return front: C19 recessed board door in rebuilt opening with rebuilt 2-light cinque-foiled window in square- headed opening above. Rebuilt 2-light mullion and transom square-headed windows on either side. Rear: two original chamfered mullion and transom cinquefoiled windows flank extension. Cavetto-moulded eaves cornice. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. Single stack to rear. R W Jeffery, Thornton- le-Dale, 1931; Chap VIII.
Listing NGR: SE8357083102
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439928
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jefferey, R W, Thornton le Dale, (1931)
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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