Sessay Church Of England School And Masters House

Sessay Church of England School and Masters House is a school building with an attached master's house, constructed in 1848 by William Butterfield for Viscount Downe. The building was enlarged in 1874, 1910, and 1949. It is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof.

The structure is single storey, with the left side consisting of an L-shaped, two-bay schoolroom, where the right bay projects under a gable. The right side contains the two-bay master's house, which has a rear outshut. The building has quoins and quoined openings.

The master's house features a central timber porch, with a three-light window to the left and a two-light window to the right. To the far right, there is an offset lateral stack with an octagonal flue, and another corniced stack is located at the rear.

The schoolroom's gabled right-hand bay includes paired, pointed-arched, two-light transomed windows with cusped heads and Decorated-style tracery. On the left side, the roof pitch is shallower over a chamfered, triangular-headed doorway with a board door that leads up steps. A small clock is situated between the door and windows, and there is an offset corniced stack in the left-hand roof slope. The left bay has a cat-slide roof over the outshut on the right, and the left gable features a two-light, transomed, Decorated-style window. The rear additions are not of special interest. Sessay is a parish noted for its pride, as mentioned in a typescript held in the Northallerton Reference Library.