The Fleece Inn, Northallerton

The Fleece Inn is a historic pub in Northallerton, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. An Augustinian friary was constructed in Northallerton in about 1340 and was dissolved around 1530. The Fleece Inn occupies part of its site, and was probably built as a house the 15th century. It has been altered over the centuries, eventually becoming a pub. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "over-restored". The building was grade II listed in 1969. In the early 2020s it was converted into an Italian restaurant, but soon became a pub again. A plaque on the front of the building claims that it may have been where Charles Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickleby. The pub is built of sandstone, with timber framing on the gables, and a pantile roof. There are two storeys and attics, a gabled wing on the left, a projecting gabled cross-wing to the right, and a left rear wing. On the left is a two-storey square bay window with casement windows and a tile roof. In the centre is a porch, and to the right is a two-storey square bay window containing mullioned windows, and with a tiled hipped roof. The gables also contain mullioned windows. Inside, there are stone floors with massive slabs, low oak-beamed ceilings, and a built-in salt box in the right-hand ground floor room.

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Northallerton Town Hall

Northallerton Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Northallerton Town Council, is a grade II listed building.

Durham House, Northallerton

Durham House is a historic building in Northallerton, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed in 1754 for D. Mitford, to a design by John Carr. In 1860, it was converted into a girls' boarding school. This closed in 1871, and the building was converted into a masonic hall. The former coach house was used by a coachbuilder from 1876, then later as a garage repairing vehicles and selling petrol. By 2011, the house was used for retail. That year, it suffered a serious fire but was later restored. The building has been grade II* listed since 1952. The front of the building is in sandstone, the sides and rear are in brown brick, and it has a sill band, a modillion cornice and a hipped Westmorland slate roof. It has three storeys and five bays. In the centre is a doorway with an architrave, stepped at the base, a swept outer architrave, a tripartite keystone, and a pediment on consoles. This is flanked by plate glass shop windows with cornices on plinths. The upper floors contain sash windows in architraves, those on the middle floor also with pulvinated friezes and cornices. On the left return is a round-arched stair window. The former coach house is built of painted brick, with a floor band, an eaves band, and a pantile roof with coping forming a pediment. There are two storeys and three bays. The ground floor contains casement windows, and on the upper floor is a recessed Diocletian panel flanked by blind oculi. In the centre of the ridge is a wooden louvred vent. It is also by Carr and is grade II listed.

Northallerton

Northallerton ( nor-THAL-ər-tən) is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the River Wiske in the Vale of Mowbray and had a population of 16,832 in 2011. Northallerton is an administrative centre for York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority and North Yorkshire Council. There has been a settlement at Northallerton since Roman times. That grew in importance from the 11th century when King William II gifted land there to the Bishop of Durham, and it became an important religious centre. The Battle of the Standard fought nearby in 1138 involved the death of up to 12,000 Scots. Northallerton was an important stopping point for coaches on the road between Edinburgh and London until the arrival of the railway.

The Golden Lion Hotel, Northallerton

The Golden Lion Hotel is a historic building in Northallerton, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The original Golden Lion was a small coaching inn built in the 18th century, the third to be established in the town after the Black Bull and the King's Head. In 1745, John Wesley preached at the inn. Around this time, it was replaced by a much larger inn of the same inn, which dominated the town's postal service and stabled about 30 horses. It later became a hotel, with guests including the future Nicholas I of Russia, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Andrew Carnegie. In the 1920s, it was taken over by the Trust House group, which owned it until 1998. It appears in the 1945 film The Way to the Stars. The building was grade II listed in 1952. The hotel has roughcast rendering, a cornice and a pantile roof. It has three storeys and a complex plan, with a main range of ten bays, and rear wings. On the front is a large porch with fluted Doric columns, a canopy with railings and a flat roof. The doorway has panelled pilasters, and an open pediment on beaded consoles. To the left are two large canted bay windows, and in the right bay is a carriage entrance. Elsewhere, there are sash windows.