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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26484152

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings