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78 High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Northallerton, North Yorkshire

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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

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 May 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards

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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