Hensall Primary School Schoolmaster's House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1967. School, schoolmaster's house.

Hensall Primary School Schoolmaster's House

WRENN ID
waiting-solder-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1967
Type
School, schoolmaster's house
Address
Hensall Primary School Schoolmaster's House, Church Lane
OS grid reference
SE 582 225
Coordinates
53.69619, -1.11883
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hensall Primary School and the Schoolmaster's House were built in 1854, with later additions and alterations made in 1893, 1968, and 1970. The architect was William Butterfield, and it was built by Charles Ward of Lincoln, under the patronage of the 7th Viscount Downe. The building features pinkish-red brick, partly rendered, and has a grey slate roof. It is a two-storey structure with two first-floor windows and a single tall storey, alongside a two-bay schoolroom.

The design reflects Aesthetic Functionalism. The main range has a ground floor that is obscured by 20th-century additions, with an entrance leading to a 20th-century porch that includes double, part-glazed doors and a nine-pane window. The first floor features a two-light timber mullion window with four-pane sashes and a tripartite window with a two-pane sash in the center, both set in a long raking dormer. The schoolroom has three six-pane casement windows and two roof dormers. There is an external end stack and a large stepped external stack on the front elevation, along with two rainwater heads bearing the initial "D". The roof is sweeping and has two levels.

Inside, many original features remain, including fireplaces, cupboards with hinges, dado rails, six and eight-panel doors, and a dogleg staircase to the master's house with plain balusters. The building is part of a group that includes St Paul's Church and The Red House, as well as similar groups in Cowick and Pollington.

Local climate

Hensall Primary School Schoolmaster's House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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