The Gannock House

MALTON

SE7872 TOWN STREET, Old Malton 801-1/6/206 (South East side) 29/09/51 No.20 The Gannock House

GV II

Schoolmaster's house, now Vicarage. Dated 1786, with early C19 extension and late C19 alteration. Original house of coursed dressed sandstone; extension of pink and cream mottled brick in Flemish bond; pantile roofs with stone coped gables and shaped kneelers; brick stacks. Central-entry plan with outshut, and added wing. Main front faces churchyard: 2 storeys 3 windows; 2-storey 1-window wing set back at right. 6-panel door beneath divided overlight between 16-pane sashes. On first floor windows are all of 16 panes; to left is hung sash, in centre replacement fixed light, and to right hung sash with sliding sash in bottom half. All windows have flat arches of voussoirs, and all, except first floor centre, stone sills. Over door is datestone inscribed: Gulielmus Jonsonus cler. Ludimagister Scholam junta positam AD1783 et hanc domum AD1786 extruendam curavit. Wing has 4-pane sash beneath wedge lintel on first floor. Town Street front: 2-storey 2 window outshut, with tall 2-storey 1-window wing projecting at left. 6-panel door with overlight, in brick quoined surround at right end of outshut; 3-light large-pane casement beneath cambered brick arch to left. Similar window above, with painted timber lintel, and small square light inserted to right. All windows have stone sills. Separate entrance to wing in stepped-up wall at left end, through round-arched passage doorway with 4-panel door and divided fanlight. 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills and painted wedge lintels on both floors of wing, the first-floor one blind.

Listing NGR: SE7985872597