Walsingham House

Walsingham House is a mid-18th century grammar school, later converted into a house, with significant alterations in 1825 and 1852. The building is L-shaped, comprising a rear 17th-century schoolroom and a square, two-story street range. It has a cellar.

The front elevation, facing South, is red brick with a low-pitched slate roof and deep eaves. It features three bays with a central doorway framed by wooden pilasters, capitals, bases, and a flat hood. The door itself is of six panels with a plain overlight. All windows are sash windows with four-over-four panes and straight, voussoired heads.

The North elevation reveals the rear of the street range to the east, and a timber-framed and plastered single-story 17th-century classroom projecting to the west. A ground-floor French window, fully glazed with five panes across and an ornate semicircular overlight with radial petal glazing, is prominent. Above it sits a similar window with a segmental head. A large, central rear stack is also a feature. The east face of the schoolroom, overlooking the garden, shows traces of combed panel pargetting and a sliding sash window; a door with four moulded panels leads to the garden via steps. Above the door is a plaster relief panel inscribed with the Latin motto "AUT DISCE AUT DOCE AUT DISCEDE," dating to 1665. The west side has a rectangular brick block of 1825 with a segment-headed window on the first floor bearing a Latin plaque commemorating the building as the Grammar School master’s house in 1825. A coal hole is visible within a York paving slab, with a patterned cast-iron lid. A rear brick unit from 1852 is divided from the front block by a brick inset. The ground floor features a segment-headed window with five-over-four panes, and the first floor has two segment-headed sash windows with similar glazing. A timber-framed schoolroom with a peg-tiled roof and a central lantern stands to the north.

The east side of the building is partially obscured, but shows two 19th-century brick units, with two upper windows, one plain and one double-casement.

Inside, the schoolroom is notable for its three cambered tie-beams, now boxed and reinforced with metal brackets, supporting a waggon roof. Within the house, a surviving window, once external, marks the junction of the 1825 house and the 1852 extension.