Newton On Ouse Church Of England School

Newton-on-Ouse Church of England School is a red brick building with ashlar dressings and Welsh and green slate roofs, dating from 1854. It was built for the Hon Payan Dawney of Beningbrough Hall. The building comprises a single-storey gabled schoolroom and a two-storey, two-bay masters house. The schoolroom is on the left and the house on the right. The schoolroom features offset diagonal buttresses and a flat-arched window with a transom and four trefoil-headed lights, set under a brick relieving arch, with a cusped spherical triangle in the apex. Ashlar coping is surmounted by a fleur-de-lis finial. The house’s roll-moulded pointed-arch doorway has a board door with decorative wrought-iron hinges. A bay window on the right has a moulded base, three trefoil-headed lights, and a stone roof. Above, there are two windows, each with two round-headed lights. All windows have glazing bars. An eaves band is present, along with moulded corbels to the ashlar coping and ridge cresting. The ridge stacks have moulded caps. At the rear, the schoolroom has a similar window to the front, but with three lights, and a round-arched, single-light window to the left, with a lateral stack to the left. The rear of the house mirrors the front in window arrangement. A single-storey range, set at right angles on the left, includes a shouldered doorway. A return side (schoolrooms) has three bays and is defined by offset buttresses, with a three-light window centrally placed, flanked by two-light windows, all with trefoil-headed lights. The fourth bay on the left is lower and set back with angle buttresses, and a three-light window.