Kirkbymoorside Quaker Meeting House

Kirkbymoorside Quaker Meeting House is a historic building in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. Quakers began meeting in Kirkbymoorside in 1689, and built a meeting house the following year. It is now hidden from the street behind a row of cottages. From 1789 to 1790, it was largely rebuilt, heightening the walls, replacing the thatch roof with slate, and refitting the interior. A west porch was added in about 1810. The meeting was grouped variously with those of Pickering and Malton, and it was only held once a month until about 1930, when more frequent meetings resumed. The building was grade II listed in 1985. The meeting house is built of sandstone, with a porch in orange brick and a hipped slate roof. It has a rectangular plan, with two cells and a west porch. The brick porch has a round-arched entrance, flanked by sash windows; the window in the right return is tripartite, and there are two further sash windows in the rear wall. On the north side is a modern stone extension containing toilets. Inside, the space is divided into two, the larger southern room with a gallery, accessed by a stair from the porch. It has wooden panelling and six wooden benches, which probably date from 1789. The smaller southern room was originally for women but now has kitchen facilities, and it retains some panelling.

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Kirkbymoorside

Kirkbymoorside (), sometimes spelled Kirbymoorside, is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is 25 miles (40 km) north of York; midway between Pickering and Helmsley, and on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. The parish had a population of 3,040 in the 2011 census.

The Old Windmill, Kirkbymoorside

The Old Windmill is a historic building in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The windmill was built in 1839, for G. Rivis, at a cost of £1,000. The Rivis family sold it in 1861, and in about 1875, its sails were removed. It was then given a pitched roof and powered by a paraffin engine. Later, it was converted into a house, and it was grade II listed in 1976. The windmill is built of red brick, it is tapering and has a circular plan. There are five storeys, in each floor are two pivot windows, and in the ground floor are two opposing plank doors. All the openings have cambered brick arches. The ground floor has a diameter of 20 feet (6.1 m), while the top floor has a diameter of 12 feet (3.7 m).

Buckingham House, Kirkbymoorside

Buckingham House is a historic building in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was built in the 17th century. In 1687, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham died in the house, following a hunting accident. Alexander Pope claimed he died "in the worst inn's worst room", but J. Gibson of Welburn Hall instead stated it was "the best house in Kirkby Moorside, which neither is nor ever was an alehouse". The house was later extended to the rear, and subdivided, splitting off Garth End House and a shop, the shop front being inserted in the 20th century. The building was grade II listed in 1985. The building is constructed of stone with a pantile roof. It has a central range of two storeys and two bays, flanking cross-wings with two storeys, attics, and gables with bargeboards, and three rear wings. In the left bay is a shopfront in brick extending into the left bay of the middle range, and above it are rusticated quoins. In the right bay of the main range is a doorway with pilasters, a fanlight and an open pediment, and to its left is a canted bay window. The other windows are horizontally-sliding sashes. Above the ground floor of the right cross-wing is an inscribed plaque. To the front and side are cast iron rallings with urn finials.

The Black Swan, Kirkbymoorside

The Black Swan is a historic pub in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building lies on the western side of the marketplace. It was originally constructed in 1632, as a hall house with a through passage, with the hall in the front section, and kitchens in the rear wing. It was later extended to the left, right and rear. It served as a coaching inn in the early 19th century, and as a pub for many years, although the right-hand section was divided later in the century to become a shop. It served as an Indian restaurant in the early 2010s before again becoming a pub. The building was grade II listed in 1955. The building has a timber framed core, encased in limestone, with extensions in whitewashed brick and stone, quoins, and a pantile roof with coped gables. It has two storeys and is four bays wide. On the front is a projecting two-storey open gabled porch with a dated and inscribed lintel, four carved posts, and an upstairs room with a row of four round-headed windows under bargeboards. To the right is a double shopfront, and the windows are sashes, some horizontally-sliding. In the bar, there is an early fireplace with a built-in spice cupboard. The original king post roof also survives.