Description

HUNSTANWORTH HUNSTANWORTH
NY 94 NW
4/67 (inset) Former school and
29.6.71 house attached
(Old Church House)
GV II

School and house, now house. Circa 1862 by S.S. Teulon for Rev. Daniel Capper
of Newbiggin. Snecked sandstone of varied colours with ashlar dressings, plinth
and quoins; diaper-patterned roof of purple and green slates. L-plan. Early
English style. North front of 2 storeys and 3 irregular bays, the right lower,
has side steps with chamfered-coped parapet to 6-panel door in central bay, with
alternate-block jambs and flat stone lintel. At left, 3 grouped shouldered
lights with sloping sills and stone surrounds, stepped over small lancets
flanking heads of lights. Flat stone lintel and alternate-block jambs to narrow
light at right of door; 2 small shouldered lights high above door, the left
shorter on sill band. Steeply-pitched roof in 3 parts, with wide left and lower
right parallel slopes united by narrow strip from eaves of left to ridge of
right. Substantial coped chimney, with one set-back, at right of highest roof,
has roll-moulded string raised over central pierced bellcote. Central rear
one-storey wing with low right extension under roof of 2 pitches and tall
chimney, with off-set, between pitches.

Listing NGR: NY9496548971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568255

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