Sessay Church of England School and Masters House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. School, house. 2 related planning applications.
Sessay Church of England School and Masters House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-vestry-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1988
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Sessay Church of England School and Masters House, Church Lane, YO7 3NA
- OS grid reference
- SE 464 747
- Coordinates
- 54.16656, -1.2907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Sessay Church of England School and Masters House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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