Knypersley School Knypersley School, Attached Archway and Frontage Wall
KNYPERSLEY SCHOOL, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND FRONTAGE WALL, NEWPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037811
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knypersley School Knypersley School, Attached Archway and Frontage Wall
- Statutory Address:
- KNYPERSLEY SCHOOL, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND FRONTAGE WALL, NEWPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037811
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knypersley School Knypersley School, Attached Archway and Frontage Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNYPERSLEY SCHOOL, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND FRONTAGE WALL, NEWPOOL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- KNYPERSLEY SCHOOL, TUNSTALL ROAD
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:
- KNYPERSLEY SCHOOL, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND FRONTAGE WALL, NEWPOOL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- KNYPERSLEY SCHOOL, TUNSTALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddulph
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88000 56776
Details
BIDDULPH C.P. NEWPOOL ROAD, Knypersley SJ 85 SE 7/35 Knypersley School, attached - archway and frontage wall
GV II
School. Circa 1850, by R.C. Hussey. Coursed stone; blue machine tile roofs; verge parapets on corbelled kneelers; stone side stacks with twin diagonal capping shafts; square end stacks to rear. 'E'-plan derivative and of Elizabethan inspiration. Frontage: 2 widely-spaced 2-storey, slightly projecting gables flank lower single-storey central range with gabled single-storey porch to centre. Gables have labelled stone-mullioned and timber-transomed casement windows to the first floor and 3-sided stone-mullioned and transomed bays to ground floor, with pitched solid block hipped roofs; 2-light stone-mullion and transom windows flank porch: round-arch entrance with carved banner relief over inscribed "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart/and lean not into thine own understanding". Pyramidal roofed belfry tower to right- hand rear of front. Lean-to set back to right; attached entry arch; elliptically arched opening in gabled wall with moulded coping and impost strings. Frontage to Newpool Road has stone wall approximately 1m high, with moulded coping on plain piers with circular pattern cut-outs running between. Built under the patronage of the Bateman family.
Listing NGR: SJ8800056776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275241
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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