Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1953. School, meeting hall.
Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- twisted-fireplace-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1953
- Type
- School, meeting hall
- Address
- Grammar School, Chestnut Avenue, Thornton-Le-Dale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 835 831
- Coordinates
- 54.23683, -0.71932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grammar School, now a meeting hall, was built in 1670 and later restored and extended in the 19th century. It was founded under a Trust Deed executed by Lady Elizabeth Lumley in 1657. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with a chamfered ashlar plinth, raised chamfered ashlar quoins, and ashlar dressings and stacks. It features a graduated stone flag roof and has a rectangular plan with extensions to the rear and rear left.
The structure is single storey with an attic and has a gable end facing the street. There is a single 3-light 19th-century round-headed Perpendicular window beneath a stopped hood-mould. Above this, in the gable end, is a raised attic band with a recessed bell-opening in a rounded arch of two orders, also beneath a stopped hood-mould.
On the right return front, there is a 19th-century recessed board door in a rebuilt opening, with a rebuilt 2-light cinque-foiled window in a square-headed opening above. There are also rebuilt 2-light mullion and transom square-headed windows on either side. At the rear, two original chamfered mullion and transom cinque-foiled windows flank the extension. The building features a cavetto-moulded eaves cornice, coped gables, and shaped kneelers, with a single stack located at the rear.
Local climate
Grammar School receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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