National School for Infants and Girls is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1985. A C19 School. 1 related planning application.
National School for Infants and Girls
- WRENN ID
- little-barrel-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- National School for Infants and Girls, Castle Yard, Knaresborough, HG5 8AS
- OS grid reference
- SE 349 569
- Coordinates
- 54.00762, -1.46843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National School for Infants and Girls is a school building, now functioning as a public hall, constructed around 1837. It is made of ashlar stone and features a Westmorland slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade with two groups of five bays. The east front includes board doors with shouldered wedge lintels at each end, and five large 30-pane sash windows between them, with smaller 4-pane sashes located above. A moulded sill band runs along the first floor, which is supported by paired gutter brackets, and the roof is hipped. The rear and left side of the building have similar window arrangements. There is also a two-storey extension at the rear that features cross-windows. It is believed that the first floor was possibly added around 1850. The National School for girls moved into this building from a room next to the vicarage by 1837, occupying the northern two bays, while the three southern bays were used for infants in 1851.
Local climate
National School for Infants and Girls receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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