The Village Centre

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SE 43 SE 6/33

SHERBURN IN ELMET FINKLE HILL (west side) Old Hungate Hospital

(Formerly listed as The Village Centre)

GV II Grammar School, village hall at time of listing. 1619 with later additions and alterations. Founded under the will of Robert Hungate. Magnesian limestone, now largely cement rendered, with Welsh slate roof. U-shaped on plan with infill to rear. Two storeys, four first floor windows. Plinth, quoins. Central round-arched entrance now a multi-paned window within wide surround with moulded base, above a carved cartouche bearing the Hungate arms. Entrance now to left return a C20 long-panel door under Tudor arch and with chamfered jambs. Ground floor to front facade has two- and five-light mullion and transom windows and an eighteen-pane sash all under hood-moulds. First floor has mainly two-light mullion windows and one single light, all under hood-moulds. Returns are gabled with moulded ashlar coping. Ridge and end stacks. In process of alteration and demolition to rear at time of resurvey.

Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 482.

Listing NGR: SE4935133766