NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INFANTS AND GIRLS

NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INFANTS AND GIRLS, CASTLE YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190079
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INFANTS AND GIRLS
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INFANTS AND GIRLS, CASTLE YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190079
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INFANTS AND GIRLS
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INFANTS AND GIRLS, CASTLE YARD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INFANTS AND GIRLS, CASTLE YARD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Knaresborough
National Grid Reference:: SE 34937 56973

Details

SE 3456 KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE YARD (north side)

8/90 National School for Infants and Girls

GV II

School, now public hall. c1837. Ashlar, Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 x 5 bays. East front: board doors with shouldered wedge lintels to ends. Five large 30-pane sashes between them, with 4-pane sashes above. Moulded sill band to first floor, paired gutter brackets, hipped. roof. Similar fenestration to rear and left return. 2-storey extension to rear with cross-windows. The first floor was possibly added c1850. The National School girls were moved into this building from a room adjoining the vicarage by 1837. They occupied the northern 2 bays in 1851, the 3 southern bays being occupied by infants. B Jennings, Harrogate and Knaresborough, 1970, p 380. Ordnance Survey, Knaresborough map, Scale 5 feet to 1 mile, 1851.

Listing NGR: SE3493756973

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Legacy System number:: 330754
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Jennings, B, A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.