Old Grammar School, Wath

The Old Grammar School is a Grade II listed buildingStructure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. in the villageSmall rural collection of buildings with a church. of Wath, near Ripon in North Yorkshire. It was built in 1684 as a grammar school, with funding from Peter Samwaies, the rector of St Mary’s Church, Wath. The building was altered in the mid-18th century, and again in the 19th century, and was converted into a house in the 20th century.^[1][2]

The building is constructed of roughcast stone, and has a roof of Westmorland slate with pantiles at the rear, stone coping and shaped kneelersMasonry at the foot of a gable. Also the piece of furniture used for resting in a kneeling position during Christian prayer.. It has two storeys and is five bays wide. The central doorway has an architrave and a three-light fanlight. Above it is an inscription, apparently a 20th-century copy of the original, recording the foundation of the school by Peter Samwaies. The windows are sashes in architraves. At the rear is a two-light mullioned window and an outshut, and in the roof are four pairs of upper crucks.^[1][3]