Description

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH HIGH STREET
(north side)

6/143 No 102 (The Old School
House)
15.5.68
GV II

School house, now house. Mid C18 with C20 restoration. Rendered, pantile
roof with 3 eaves cornices of stone slates. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor
windows. 6-panel door to right of centre, with fanlight, panelled reveals
and wooden doorcase, (erected since 1968). Large stone tablet above. To
right, sash with glazing bars in flush wood architrave with 9-pane unequally
hung sash above. To left, two 3-light side-sliding sashes with 24 panes,
with two 2-light side-sliding sashes with glazing bars above. Ashlar gable
coping and end stack of brick to left. The tablet above the door carries an
inscription listing the donors and date of the school. Thomas Richardson
gave this burgage house and £400 in trust to found an elementary school in
1765. It was know as Richardson's or the Charity School. By 1826 the
donations had totalled £2,139 and 30 children were admitted. E Hargrove,
History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough, 6th Edition, 1809,
p80. B Jennings, Harrogate and Knaresborough, 1970, p379.

Listing NGR: SE3487257238

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581659

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