Latitude: 54.3413 / 54°20'28"N
Longitude: -1.4347 / 1°26'5"W
OS Eastings: 436847
OS Northings: 494124
OS Grid: SE368941
Mapcode National: GBR LLF7.5J
Mapcode Global: WHD81.X4ZP
Plus Code: 9C6W8HR8+G4
Entry Name: 78 High Street
Listing Date: 9 December 1969
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1189057
English Heritage Legacy ID: 332805
ID on this website: 101189057
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL7
County: North Yorkshire
District: Hambleton
Civil Parish: Northallerton
Built-Up Area: Northallerton
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Northallerton All Saints
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Hospital building
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SE 3694-3794
6/11
NORTHALLERTON
HIGH STREET (east side)
No 78
(Formerly listed as No 78 (The Rutson Hospital))
9.12.69
GV
II
House, hospital at time of listing. Early and mid C18, of two builds, with later alterations. Rendered, pantile roof. Two storeys, 2:5 bays. On ground floor to left, ashlar quoined, basket-arched doorway to passage. Four-pane sash windows with exposed flush sash boxes, on first floor in third-seventh bays set higher than those in first two bays. Shaped kneeler and ashlar coping between second and third bay; large ridge stack in third bay.
Interior: ground-floor room in sixth and seventh bays has early C18 dado and wooden fielded panels separated by fluted pilasters which break forward on cornice, fielded panel window shutters, round-arched door of six fielded panels, and simple fire surround with egg-and-dart motif flanked by round-arched cupboards with leaved fielded panel doors and keyed architraves; at rear, early-mid C18 open-well staircase with column-on-vase turned balusters, three per step, and wreathed handrail.
No 78 was the home of Robert Raikes Fulthorpe Esq, and called Vine House, having in 1789 the largest vine in England, 137 square yards in extend, with a trunk circumference of almost 4 feet. The Quarter Sessions were held here 1720-70, in the mid C19 it became the Post Office, and in 1877 a cottage hospital.
Rev J L Saywell, The History and Annals of Northallerton (1885), pp 141, 200, appendix px; VCH i, p 420.
Listing NGR: SE3684794124
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