Almshouses Easby, England
Listed Building Data
Almshouses has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1318261
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 4 February 1969
- Name
- ALMSHOUSES
- Location
- ALMSHOUSES
- Parish
- Easby
- District
- Richmondshire
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- NZ 18738 00451
- Easting
- 418737.7450
- Northing
- 500451.2760
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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: NZ1871200440
