Friends' School East Central Building is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1966. House.
Friends' School East Central Building
- WRENN ID
- worn-gallery-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Friends' School East Central Building, High Green, Great Ayton
- OS grid reference
- NZ 562 106
- Coordinates
- 54.48789, -1.13247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends' School East Central Building is a house that has been incorporated into a school, dating from around 1800. It is constructed of coursed squared tooled stone and features a plinth, alternating quoins, and a moulded eaves cornice. The roof is made of graduated Lakeland slate and includes stone stacks. The building has three storeys and an attic, with five bays. A central Roman Doric porch, which is distyle in antis, is accessed by four steps. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, with the second floor windows being shorter. There are three added stone-coped attic gables with kneelers and end chimneys. The rear elevation includes a central Venetian stair window.
Local climate
Friends' School East Central Building receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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