Porny School
Eton Porny C of E First School, High Street, Eton, Windsor, SL4 6AS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031548
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Porny School
- Statutory Address:
- Eton Porny C of E First School, High Street, Eton, Windsor, SL4 6AS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031548
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Porny School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Eton Porny C of E First School, High Street, Eton, Windsor, SL4 6AS
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Old School House, 14a and 14b, High Street, Eton, Windsor, SL4 6AS
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Eton Porny C of E First School, High Street, Eton, Windsor, SL4 6AS
- Statutory Address:
- The Old School House, 14a and 14b, High Street, Eton, Windsor, SL4 6AS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 96680 77654
Details
SU 9677 NE
851/1/10003
ETON
HIGH STREET
Porny School
GV
II
School and former master's house. 1863-73, to the designs of G.E. Street. Polychrome red and blue brick with Bath stone dressings. Banded slate roofs with pierced clay ridge tiles and stone coped gable ends. Brick gable-end and axial stacks with set-offs, each with pair of short stone circular shafts. High Victorian Gothic style.
PLAN: Master's house in range at front with archway at right [S] end through to schoolrooms adjoining at rear [E]; the original schoolroom was extended in 1873 by addition of a large two-storey range.
EXTERIOR: two storey five-bay front range in polychrome red brick with blue brick diaper patterns, bands and relieving arches to three-light stone mullion ground floor windows with sashes; to right a cusped segmental stone arch and shallow wooden oriel on brachets over two-light wooden window with glazing bars; weathered brick plinth and string at first floor window cill level, three-light first floor casements; the string continues around left [N] gable end where it is raised at centre; short wing added at rear with twin half-hipped roofs. Red brick schoolrooms at rear with slate gable-ended roofs, the first single storey, the second a tall two-storey range with lancets and rose windows in the gable ends; and another single-storey range at right angles to the east.
INTERIOR: Schoolrooms ceiled.
NOTE: This school replaced the Porny School of 1813 [listed No.29 High St], which was founded by a Frenchman called Porny.
Listing NGR: SU9668077654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 139
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 05/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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