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Corunna House

Grade II* listed buildings in North YorkshireGrade II* listed housesHouses in North YorkshireSelby
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Corunna House is a historic building in Selby, in North Yorkshire, England. The house lies on Water Lane, facing the River Ouse. It was built in the early 18th century, before 1724, for Richard Pearson. It had a variety of owners until the 1850s, when it was converted into the Ousegate School, which closed in 1926. It was then named "Corunna House", due to a purported connection with John Moore of La Coruna. Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as "the handsomest house in Selby". It was Grade II* listed in 1952.The house is built of brown brick, with a pantile roof. It has brick quoins and a wooden cornice. It is eight bays wide, with the third bay coming slightly further forward, and incorporating the main entrance. This has a rectangular fanlight and large hood above. In the middle, there is a carriage entrance, which may be a later creation. The windows are sashes. The right-hand side had a 19th-century shop front, which has since been replaced with brick and two further sash windows.

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King's Church Selby
King's Church Selby

King's Church Selby is a historic church in Selby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. Andrew Reed was sent by the Hackney Academy to preach in Selby in July 1808. His sermons proved immediately popular, and although he left in August, a Mr Seaton came to replace him in October, and began construction of a rectangular chapel, which opened in March 1809. The congregation continued to grow, and in 1812, galleries were added. In 1842, a vestry and schoolroom were added to the south of the chapel. The capacity of the chapel eventually grew to 500. In 1866, James Pigott Pritchett refronted the chapel and renovated the building, which by then was part of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. In 1972, this became part of the United Reformed Church (URC), which in 1977 renovated the building, removing the choir stalls and installing a kitchen. By 2009, the building was shared with the King's Church, and in 2012 the URC moved out, leaving the building entirely to the King's Church. The church has been grade II listed since 1980. It has a front of polychrome brick with stone dressings, it is rendered elsewhere, and has a Welsh slate roof with grey ridge tiles. The main block has three bays divided and flanked by stock brick piers, on a chamfered and rendered plinth. The middle block is gabled, and contains an arcade of four round arches with colonnettes, and above is a large rose window with a central quatrefoil. Each outer bay contains a round-arched doorway with colonnettes, and above is an oculus. To the left is the former schoolroom, with a three-bay arcade on the ground floor and a two-bay arcade above.