Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum

{{Short description|Museum in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}

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The Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum is a museum in Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The building was constructed as a school, on the initiative of Michael Postgate. It was completed in 1704, and was extended and partly rebuilt in 1785. Captain James Cook was educated at the school. The school was later converted to serve as the headquarters of the parish council.{{cite book |last1=Page |first1=William |title=A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 |date=1923 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp225-231 |access-date=30 October 2024}} In the late 20th century, it was converted into a museum, focusing on the life of Cook, and including a reconstruction of a schoolroom as it would have been in the mid 18th century.{{cite web |title=About the museum |url=https://captaincookschoolroommuseum.co.uk/about-the-museum/ |website=The James Cook Schoolroom Museum |access-date=30 October 2024}}{{cite book |last1=Chrystal |first1=Paul |last2=Sunderland |first2=Mark |title=North York Moors Through Time |date=2010 |publisher=Amberley Publishing |isbn=9781445629728}} The building was grade II listed in 1969.{{NHLE |desc=Captain Cook's Schoolroom |num=1294452 |access-date=30 October 2024}}

The building comprises a pair of houses with the schoolroom on the left. They are built of sandstone on a plinth, with swept pantile roofs and stone copings, and two storeys. The former cottage has three bays, on the front is a shop window and an inscribed bronze plaque, and at the rear are external steps to a doorway and an inscribed plaque. The two houses have four bays, and contain a doorway with a plain surround. The windows in all parts are horizontally-sliding sashes.