The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1968. School house. 1 related planning application.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- late-column-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1968
- Type
- School house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH HIGH STREET (north side)
6/143 No 102 (The Old School House) 15.5.68 GV II
School house, now house. Mid C18 with C20 restoration. Rendered, pantile roof with 3 eaves cornices of stone slates. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. 6-panel door to right of centre, with fanlight, panelled reveals and wooden doorcase, (erected since 1968). Large stone tablet above. To right, sash with glazing bars in flush wood architrave with 9-pane unequally hung sash above. To left, two 3-light side-sliding sashes with 24 panes, with two 2-light side-sliding sashes with glazing bars above. Ashlar gable coping and end stack of brick to left. The tablet above the door carries an inscription listing the donors and date of the school. Thomas Richardson gave this burgage house and £400 in trust to found an elementary school in 1765. It was know as Richardson's or the Charity School. By 1826 the donations had totalled £2,139 and 30 children were admitted. E Hargrove, History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough, 6th Edition, 1809, p80. B Jennings, Harrogate and Knaresborough, 1970, p379.
Listing NGR: SE3487257238
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