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SE 3694-3794
6/12

NORTHALLERTON
HIGH STREET (east side)
No 79

(Formerly listed as No 79 (part of Rutson Hospital)

9.12.69

GV
II

House, hospital at time of listing. Mid C18 with early C19 and later alterations. Brick in Flemish bond, concrete interlocking tile roof. Two tall storeys, three bays. In first bay, six-panel door below three-pane overlight in quoined architrave with tripartite keystone. Above, first-floor square oriel window of c1900 supported on brackets, with coat of arms below casement lights, with leaded lights at the top and a hipped Welsh slate roof. Other bays have four-pane sash windows with flat arches. There is a blocked first-floor window between the second and third bays. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Red brick end stacks.

Interior: entrance hall has above front and rear doors a pulvinated frieze and dentilled pediment, on both side walls a segmental-arched frame with Tuscan pilasters enclosing a niche, flanked by high-level oval recessed with a consoled base, and modillion ceiling cornice; ground-floor room to right (now partitioned) has on front wall plaster panels with eared and shouldered borders of Vitruvian scroll motif and fielded panel window shutters, and windows in rear wall have early C19 shutters with reeded panels with fluted borders and matching motif on architraves.

Listing NGR: SE3685994112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443552

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover