Parish Hall

SE 56 SW NEWTON-ON-OUSE MOOR LANE (south side)

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Infants school and master's house now parish hall and caretaker's house. 1857 (Bulmer and Co, p768). For the Hon Payan Dawnay of Beningbrough Hall. Red brick in English garden wall bond, stone slate roof. One and 2 storeys, 3 bays, left bay gabled and projecting slightly. Plinth. Left bay has quoined, pointed- arch doorway with board door to right of window with 4 shouldered-arch lights. Above this a window of 2 trefoil-headed lights. Both windows under relieving arches. Asymmetrical gable, lower on right, with coping. Bays 2 and 3 single- storey, divided by coped buttress, each with a window of 5 trefoil-headed lights. Coping. 2 gabled lights to roof slope. Ridge stack. Rear: schoolroom has a window of 5 trefoil-headed lights to right of stack rising from eaves. 2- light window to house (on right). Left return (house): central quoined and chamfered pointed-arch doorway with recessed arch and inner quoined and chamfered shouldered-arch doorway. To either side of doorway a 3-light chamfered, mullioned and transomed window under relieving arch. Above and to left of door a window of 3 triangular-headed lights. To left, single-storey lean-to bay with slit window. Coping, gabled at apexes.

Bulmer,T,and Co, Directory of North Yorkshire, 1890.

Listing NGR: SE5120960036