Almshouses
ALMSHOUSES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318261
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- ALMSHOUSES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318261
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMSHOUSES
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:
- ALMSHOUSES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Easby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ1871100439
Details
EASBY EASBY
NZ 10 SE
4/49 Almshouses
(formerly listed as
4.2.69 Smith's Hospital)
(Two dwellings)
GV II
4 almshouses, now one house. Dated 1732, altered 1816. For Rev William
Smith. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Single
storey,4 cells. Chamfered plinth. Chamfered rusticated quoins. In second
and fifth bays, board doors in ashlar surrounds. 2-light flat-faced mullion
windows in ashlar surrounds. Cavetto cornice. Shaped kneelers, ashlar
copings. Corniced ashlar stacks at ends and in centre. In centre of front
wall, architraved panel inscribed "THIS HOSPITAL was Founded and Endowed by
d
WILLIAM SMITH RECTOR OF MELSONBY in the 82 year of his age Anno Domini
1732". The Hospital was founded for 4 poor persons, including the
schoolmaster, each door giving entry to 2 cells, one on either side. In
1818 the Hospital was repaired and altered to house 2 inmates, one of them
the parish clerk and schoolmaster. VCH i, p 64. White, History, Gazetteer
& Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire (1840), p 643.
Listing NGR: NZ1871100439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 64
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, (1840), 643
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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