Easingwold Union Workhouse

A Poor Law Union was created in 1837, and it constructed a new workhouse, which was completed in 1838.

[1] In 1934, North Riding County Council converted the building into the Claypenny Hospital, for mentally disabled people.

[2] The other hospital buildings were demolished, but the workhouse had been grade II listed in 1984 and so was instead converted into flats.

[3] The building is constructed of pale brown brick, with a stuccoed floor band and a Welsh slate roof.

In the centre is a doorway with a fanlight in a round-arched recess, and the windows are sashes.