Dakyn House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Hospital, almshouses. 3 related planning applications.
Dakyn House
- WRENN ID
- empty-rotunda-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Hospital, almshouses
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 1306 KIRBY HILL VILLAGE GREEN (south side) 17/61 Dakyn House (formerly listed as John Dakin's Almshouse)
4.2.69
GV II
Hospital of St John the Baptist, now almshouses. Dated 1754. Founded by Rev John Dakyn, DD. Coursed rubble, stone slate roofs. Double-depth plan. 2 and 1 storeys, 4 bays to the Green. Quoins at ends and left of second bay. All openings have C20 ashlar architraves, the windows mostly 3-light mullion. From left: a window on each floor; board door with single-light window above; a window on each floor; C20 plaque with present name, and above it a circular plaque inscribed "Built by Tho. Buckton, Fra. Allen 1754"; ground-floor window; board door; ground-floor window. Rebuilt stacks at ends and centre. 2-span roof. The hospital was founded by Rev John Dakyn, DD, at the same time as the Grammar School (qv). The hospital originally accommodated 27 inmates, reduced to 12 men and 12 women in 1803 when the building was extended, and was converted into a smaller number of flats in the 1950s. T Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), pp 466-467; VCH i, p 97; W White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, (1840), pp 651-652.
Listing NGR: NZ1398106534
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