Danby School and Masters House is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1990. School. 1 related planning application.

Danby School and Masters House

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1990
Type
School
Address
Danby School and Masters House, Yall Flat Lane, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 699 078
Coordinates
54.46106, -0.92232
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Danby School and the master's house is a school building from the third quarter of the 19th century, constructed from coursed squared sandstone with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone dressings and stacks. The structure likely consists of three sections built close together in time.

The central section is a single storey with two wide bays, featuring a boarded door with decorative hinges set within a multi-moulded two-centred arch that has a hoodmould. Flanking the door are two- and three-light casement windows, which have cusped heads. A large projecting offset stack, which includes a niche displaying a coat-of-arms, is also present.

To the right, there is a two-storey gabled wing that has mullioned and transomed windows with pointed heads. The lower section has a two-light window, while the upper section features a three-light window set under a relieving arch. The ridge stacks are stepped and corniced.

The projecting left wing is taller and has a three-light window with pointed heads, along with an owl hole in the gable. There is an extruded porch that contains a Tudor-arched boarded door.

At the right end of the building is the master's house, which has a three-bay, one-and-a-half-storey front on the right return. This section features a low doorway with a two-centred arch and four mullioned and transomed windows with pointed heads, three on the ground floor and one in a half-dormer.

A pent extension on the right is noted as not being of special interest.

Local climate

Danby School and Masters House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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