240, High Street

SE 3694-3794 6/60

NORTHALLERTON, HIGH STREET (west side), No. 240

(Formerly listed as Nos 240 and 241.

Previously listed as No 241 (The Old Grammar School)

15.4.86

GV II

Grammar school, now offices. 1776, altered and extended 1844. Brick in Flemish bond, pantile roof. L-shaped plan, 2 storeys, 3 bays to High Street. Ground floor: 4-pane sash windows below lintel and segmental relieving arch in panel, recessed within painted, round arch with impost band. First floor: 8-pane sash windows. Dentil cornice. Hipped roof. End eaves stacks. To left, recessed single-storey screen wall with C20 part-glazed door, not of special interest. Right return: impost band and cornice return, 1 matching ground-floor window, 1 blind first-floor window. Further right, probably an added house, of slightly lower storeys: 6-panel door and 16-pane sash window on ground floor, round-arched staircase sash window with glazing bars, radial at the top, and 16-pane sash window on first floor; dentil cornice, stack at right end. The medieval grammar school stood in the churchyard and was replaced by this building, then also on church land. Rev J L Saywell, The History and Annals of Northallerton (1885), pp 31, 131, 176 and iv.

Listing NGR: SE3674294159