Description

CLEASBY CLEASBY NZ 21 SW 4/10 Cleasby and Stapleton Village Hall

GV II

School, now village hall. 1848. For Thomas Pease. White brick with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs. T-shaped plan. Single storey. 2:1 bays to road, the main range to right projecting forward and subsidiary range to left, with porch in the angle. Left range: brick plinth; raised ashlar quoins to left; windows of 2 round-arched lights with ashlar surrounds and mullions; 6-panel door in flat-roofed ashlar porch with 2 square Tuscan columns and antae behind, oversailing eaves; roof hipped to left. Right range: taller; ashlar plinth; raised ashlar quoins; 4-light matching window; oversailing eaves; hipped roof. At junction of the two roofs, bell turret: corniced ashlar base, with brick sides to opening, keyed round-arched ashlar top to opening; deep ashlar cornice; coved lead roof. Built as a Friends' Day School, it was merged with the village's Robinson School and conducted as a British School. Methodists held their Sunday service here until a chapel was built in Cleasby in 1903. T Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890), p 402; VCH i, pp 158-160. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ2497412995

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