Richmondshire Museum

The Richmondshire Museum is a museum located in Richmond in North Yorkshire, England. The Museum Trust was founded in 1974 by the Soroptimists of Richmond and the Dales; the Museum opened in 1978 in a former joiner's workshop, and has expanded its collections ever since. The Museum incorporates a reconstructed cruck house, which contains a collection of domestic bygones. There is a Leadmining Gallery, which details the industry which flourished in Swaledale and the North Yorkshire Dales until the end of the nineteenth century. The Transport Gallery has a model of Richmond Railway Station. Another room contains the Herriot Set from the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small, and Barker's Chemist's Shop. The Wenham Gallery covers the history of Richmond and district. In 2008 the Museum opened a recreation of the Richmond grocer's shop where the founder of the Fenwick department store chain began his working life. Next to this there is a recreation of an ironmonger's shop and the Museum also houses the old post office from nearby Grinton. The Museum also boasts a purpose built Discovery Centre that can be used by both schools and visiting families. Here visitors can dress up and play in the mock up shop and with bygone toys; this room also houses the Museums Wednesday Workshops which are free activity sessions for families.

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The Grove, Richmond

The Grove is a historic building in Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England. The house was built in 1750 by Caleb Readshaw, the mayor of Richmond. It lies on Frenchgate, raised above the road, behind a small garden with prominent trees. It is accessed up a flight of steps, which Richmondshire District Council described as a "significant feature" of the area. Bow windows were added later, probably in the early 19th century. The building was grade II* listed in 1952. The large house is built of red brick, with chamfered stone quoins, a moulded stone cornice, brick parapets with stone capping, and a slate roof. It has three storeys, a main block of five bays, and a recessed single-bay extension on the left. In the centre of the main block is a doorway with a moulded surround, a pulvinated frieze and a cornice. This is flanked by large semicircular bow windows, and the other windows on the main block are sashes with moulded stone frames. On the extension are three-light windows with rusticated keystones, and at the rear is a Venetian window.

9 Market Place

9 Market Place is a historic building in Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England. The building was constructed as a house in the early 18th century. In 1936, it became a branch of Woolworths, and a shop front was inserted at ground floor level. In the 1970s, Woolworths moved to larger premises at 58 and 59 Market Place, and the shop was later occupied by WHSmith. The building was grade II* listed in 1952. The shop is built of red brick, with rusticated quoins, a heavy cornice, and a slate roof. It has two storeys and four bays. On the ground floor is the modern shopfront, the upper floor contains sash windows with moulded surrounds and small keystones. On the roof are four dormers, the outer pair with segmental pediments, and the inner pair with triangular pediments.

Kings Head Hotel, Richmond

The Kings Head Hotel is a historic building in Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England. The building was constructed in 1717 by Charles Bathurst, and was probably the first brick building in the town. It may originally have been designed as a house, but by 1725, it was in use as a hotel. Early attractions for guests in the garden included a cock pit, a bowling green, and performing pigs. In 1765, it was purchased by Sir Lawrence Dundas, and the Dundas family owned the hotel until 1897. In 1813, the neighbouring King's Arms Inn was demolished and replaced with a new street. This permitted the insertion of a first-floor ballroom with large windows overlooking the road. Franz Liszt performed in the ballroom in 1841, and J. M. W. Turner stayed, describing the hotel as "the finest in Richmondshire". In 1916, part of the ground floor was let to Lloyds Bank, for which a separate entrance was created, although by the late 20th century the area had been reincorporated into the hotel. The hotel is built of red brick, rendered on the left return, with stone dressings, a plinth with moulded capping, rusticated quoins, a moulded eaves cornice and a hipped stone slate roof. It has three storeys and is eight bays wide. The central doorway has a moulded shouldered architrave, a doorway in the left bay has a plain surround, and both have a decorative frieze and pediment. The windows are sashes with moulded frames and sills, and keystones. The building has been grade II* listed since 1952.

58 and 59 Market Place

58 and 59 Market Place is a historic building in Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England. The building was constructed in the mid 18th century, as a large house. In the early 19th century, the doorway and flanking windows were replaced. The building was grade II* listed in 1952. From the 1970s, the building was occupied by Woolworths, then after the chain closed in 2009, it was used by Heron Foods. The building is in painted roughcast, with rusticated quoins, a moulded cornice with modillions, a parapet, and a roof partly of slate and partly of pantile. It has three storeys and eight bays. Part of the ground floor is recessed, and to the left is a doorway with engaged Tuscan columns, a three-light fanlight, a triglyph frieze, and a moulded pediment. Also on this floor are two shop windows, and in the right bay is a segmental-headed carriage archway with shaped jambs and a rusticated keystone. The upper floors contain sash windows with rusticated keystones.