Dakyn House
DAKYN HOUSE, VILLAGE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131325
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Dakyn House
- Statutory Address:
- DAKYN HOUSE, VILLAGE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131325
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dakyn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAKYN HOUSE, VILLAGE GREEN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DAKYN HOUSE, VILLAGE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 13975 06532
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322762
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 97
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 466 467
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, (1840), 651 652
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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