Sessay Church Of England School And Masters House

SESSAY CHURCH LANE SE 47 SE (east side) 7/30 Sessay Church of England School and Masters House GV II School with master's house. 1848 by William Butterfield for Viscount Downe; enlarged 1874, 1910 and 1949 (Sessay typescript, p 22). Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; graduated stone slate roof. Single storey; on left, L-shaped 2-bay schoolroom, the right bay projecting under gable; on right, in line with gable, 2-bay master's house with rear outshut. Quoins, quoined openings. House: central timber porch with 3-light window to left and 2-light window to right; to far right, offset lateral stack with octagonal flue; another, corniced, stack to rear. School: gabled right-hand bay has paired, pointed-arched, 2-light transomed windows with cusped heads and Decorated-style tracery; on left roof pitch is shallower over chamfered, triangular-headed doorway with board door up steps; small clock between door and windows; offset corniced stack in left-hand roof slope. Left bay has cat- slide roof over outshut on right. Left gable has a 2-light, transomed, Decorated- style window. Rear additions not of special interest. Sessay, a parish to be proud of (typescript held in Northallerton Reference Library).

Listing NGR: SE4640874759