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Old School House

A Grade II Listed Building in Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton, North Yorkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.9505 / 53°57'1"N

Longitude: -1.2834 / 1°17'0"W

OS Eastings: 447125

OS Northings: 450730

OS Grid: SE471507

Mapcode National: GBR MQGR.YL

Mapcode Global: WHD9W.8Y3T

Plus Code: 9C5WXP28+6J

Entry Name: Old School House

Listing Date: 8 October 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1150362

English Heritage Legacy ID: 331709

ID on this website: 101150362

Location: Bilton in Ainsty, North Yorkshire, YO26

County: North Yorkshire

District: Harrogate

Civil Parish: Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Rural Ainsty

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


SE 45 SE BILTON IN AINSTY TOCKWITH LANE
(east side)

4/8 Old School House

- II


School, now private house. Early C19. For Hall Plumer. Red-brown brick,
Flemish bond, graduated grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays, the pedimented
central 2 bays project. Central 6-panel door with overlight. Blocked
doorway now a window far right. 12-pane sashes flank the door, the
remainder are smaller and of 16 panes and all have segmental stretcher
arches and stone sills. Modillioned eaves cornice and pediment. A stone
plaque between the central first-floor windows has no inscription; a blind
oculus in the pediment has an inscription (restored): "Ex dono / H. PLUMER
Armi(ger) / Anno Domini / 1801". End brick stacks. A late C19 single-
storey schoolroom with stone-mullioned windows projects to right. Left
return (to road): a round-arched recess with keystone, right, has a blocked
doorway; 2 round-arched windows with stone sills and C20 small-paned sashes
to first floor; blocked oculus to gable. Rear range not of special
interest. The school was endowed by Hall Plumer of Bilton Hall (qv) and
served Bilton, Bickerton and Tockwith. It was closed in 1928 and was used
as a village hall until 1973 when the chuch sold it and it was converted
into a private house. W V Crapp, Some historical notes on the Parish and
Parish Church of St Helen's, Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton, 1973, p6.


Listing NGR: SE4712550730

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