School House

The School House, now used as school offices and a boarding house, dates from the early 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast with a stone slate roof and has three storeys with a five-by-two bay layout. On the ground floor, in the third bay, there is a four-panel door set in a chamfered ashlar surround, topped with an open pediment supported by brackets. The building features sash windows in ashlar surrounds, with the sixth and seventh bays on the first floor being taller, and a blind window in the fourth bay of the second floor. The roof has shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, with corniced brick stacks located at the ends and between bays two and three, and five and six. The rear elevation includes a staircase window, while the left return has a chamfered quoined doorway that has been converted into a window. The right return features a large external stepped stack that has been truncated. Inside, the rear staircase has turned balusters with inverted bell shapes near the base. Scorton Grammar School was founded in 1720 by Leonard Robinson, who endowed it with this building.