School House
SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040663
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH HILL
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- Date:
- 2006-02-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/15164/08
- Rights:
- © Mr Roger Ashley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040663
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH HILL
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:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Finedon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 91219 72010
Details
FINEOON CHURCH HILL SP9172 (West side) 6/7 School House 23/09/50 (Formerly listed as Boys Junior School) GV II
Boys school and masters house, now house. Datestones 1595 and 1760. Squared coursed ironstone with slate roof. L-shape plan. 2 storeys, part with attic. Main front abutting road of 3-window range at ground floor of 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows with leaded lights. Gabled cross wing to left of c.1595 has C19 plank door to right with 4-centred moulded stone head. 2-window range to right is of a different build. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelars, Ironstone stacks to gable ends of cross wing and ashlar stacks at ridge and end of right range. Single storey extension to far right has datestone 1760 in covered way. Pear elevation facing churchyard is similar with 3- and 4-light stone-mullion windows to cross wing. Datestone 1595 on return wall and Royal coat of arms in gable with initials E.R. Interior has some chamfered ceiling beams. Endowed as a boys school 1595 by Richard Walker; closed as school 1961. (Finedon Otherwise Thingdon by J.L.H. Bailey, p127).
Listing NGR: SP9121972010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bailey, J L H, Finedon Otherwise Thingdon, (), 127
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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