Church Hall, Scrayingham

Hall, formerly a parochial school, of 1853, probably by G T Andrews.

MATERIALS: constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with stone dressings to the door, windows and quoins, under a grey slate roof.

PLAN: the single storey building has a single room with an attached porch to the side and a kitchen to the rear. It stands back from the road to the south, with an area of grass where the former school yard stood, and is bounded by iron rail fencing.

EXTERIOR: the front of the building has three windows, two of two lights with stone mullion and dressings and a larger central window with replacement timber mullion and transom, set below a gablet with plain timber barge boards. A date stone above the window reads AD MDCCCXLCIII (not a valid number; 1853 is the correct date). To the left is a lower section which contains the main entrance with a plank timber door with stone dressings. The gable end on the right return has a stone mullioned and transomed window and a small single light above, both with stone dressings. To the right is a half-glazed timber door in the rear extension. The porch on the left return has a narrow window in the gable end; the porch is narrower than the main building which has fenestration similar to the right return but with the main window offset to the rear. At the rear the main roof is extended to form an extension with a single window, and there is a further low single storey brick extension with doors to either side.

INTERIOR: the porch leads to the main room which has a lowered ceiling and timber floorboards. A galley kitchen is in the rear extension. Access to the toilets is from the exterior.