The Old School House

THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024582
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:
The Old School House
Statutory Address:
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024582
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
The Old School House
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Aston Cantlow
National Grid Reference:
SP 13760 59829

Details

ASTON CANTLOW CHURCH LANE SP15NW (South side) 7/21 The Old School House 11/12/69 (Formerly listed as School and School House)

- II

School and master house, now house. 1847-48. Designed by William Butterfield. Coursed lias with Quoins and limestone dressings. Tile roofs with coped gables; lias and brick stacks. L-plan. Gothic Revival style. One storey and one storey and attic; 6-window range. School projects forward on left. Entrance in outshut in re-entrant angle has half-glazed door in arch. 3-light traceried window with trefoiled lights and quatrefoils, and outer arch of thin voussoirs. Main range bias plank door. Two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, two-light mullioned window, and lancet with transom; openings have relieving arches. Varied roof levels. 4 dormers with C20 casements and glazed apexes. Left return side has 2 projecting external stacks; shafts missing. Paired and 4 single lancets, the centre 3 with transoms. Rear similar to front. Late C19/early C20 brick addition to school. interior not inspected. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.76; Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, pp.216, 398, 401, 436).

Listing NGR: SP1376059829

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
305368
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 216,398
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 401,436
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 76

Legal

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

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