Yorebridge House Screen Walls And Roadside Wall With Railings

BAINBRIDGE YORE BRIDGE END SD 99 SW 8/88 Yorebridge House, screen walls and roadside wall with railings GV II Schoolmaster's house, now offices, attached screen wall and roadside wall with railings. House dated 1850, mid-C19 roadside wall and railings, early-C18 screen wall. House built for Rev. William Balderston, headmaster of Yorebridge Grammar School 1847-91. Coursed watershot rubble, graduated Welsh slate roof, cast-iron railings. House: 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays, with single-storey porch set back on left. Porch: board door in chamfered ashlar surround. Main block: in centre, slightly-projecting bay with canted bay- window on ground floor. Ground-floor sill band. In outer bays of ground floor, and in centre of first floor: sash windows with glazing bars under sandstone ashlar lintels with cornices above on consoles. In central gable, "W B" shield inscribed 1850 . First-floor outer windows are sashes with glazing bars, with gablets above. Fleurs-de-lis crosses on gables. At rear, C20 extension with, to right, attached single-storey screen wall, fragment of earlier building, with board door and 3-light flat-faced mullion window. Facing road, low wall with coping, and arc-shaped curve beside house supporting railings with fleurs-de-lis finials, and matching central gate. Hartley M and Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village (1979).

Listing NGR: SD9338290673