THE FORMER NATIONAL GIRLS SCHOOL

THE FORMER NATIONAL GIRLS SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096965
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER NATIONAL GIRLS SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: THE FORMER NATIONAL GIRLS SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 2000-10-15
Reference:: IOE01/03281/16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096965
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Aug-1995
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER NATIONAL GIRLS SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: THE FORMER NATIONAL GIRLS SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE FORMER NATIONAL GIRLS SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ashover
National Grid Reference:: SK 34922 63130

Details

ASHOVER SK3463 CHURCH STREET 1264-0/11/35 (East side) 31/01/67 The Former National Girls School (Formerly Listed as: Village Hall Formerly School) GV II Former National Girls' School. Dated 1845. Horizontally tooled ashlar gritstone, with ashlar dressings, plinth, moulded cornice with blocking course, coped Dutch gable to porch, crow-stepped gables, and a concrete tiled roof. 2 storeys and 3 bays, with an advanced 2-storey gabled porch which has shallow corner piers. Central doorway with moulded ashlar surround, and a 3-centred arched lintel beneath a hood mould with label stops. Above is a dated rectangular plaque, and, above that, a quatrefoil opening. Flanking the porch are bays with stacked tall 3-light chamfered mullioned windows, each light with a 3-centred arched head, all beneath a hood mould with label stops. The corners to this elevation have shallow diagonal buttresses which terminate at first-floor window head height. C20 planked door to doorway, and leaded lights to all window openings. The plaque above the doorway is inscribed: 'Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it (Prov. XXII.6) In Dei laudem, et in ijujusqe parochiae usum hanc scholam dedicabit'.

Listing NGR: SK3492263130

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Legacy System number:: 393444
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.