Yorebridge House Screen Walls And Roadside Wall With Railings

Yorebridge House is a schoolmaster's house, now used as offices, built in 1850 for Rev. William Balderston, who was the headmaster of Yorebridge Grammar School from 1847 to 1891. The house features coursed watershot rubble and a graduated Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys and is arranged in three bays, with a single-storey porch set back on the left. The porch has a board door surrounded by a chamfered ashlar frame. The main block has a slightly projecting central bay with a canted bay window on the ground floor. There is a sill band on the ground floor, and the outer bays on the ground floor, as well as the centre of the first floor, have sash windows with glazing bars beneath sandstone ashlar lintels with cornices supported by consoles. The central gable displays a shield inscribed with "W B" and the year 1850. The first-floor outer windows are also sash windows with glazing bars and feature gablets above. The gables are adorned with fleurs-de-lis crosses. At the rear, there is a 20th-century extension and to the right, an attached single-storey screen wall, which is a fragment of an earlier building, featuring a board door and a three-light flat-faced mullion window. Facing the road, there is a low wall with coping and an arc-shaped curve beside the house that supports railings topped with fleurs-de-lis finials, along with a matching central gate.