BLISS CHARITY SCHOOL SCHOOL HOUSE

BLISS CHARITY SCHOOL, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041027
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: BLISS CHARITY SCHOOL SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BLISS CHARITY SCHOOL, THE GREEN

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/07284/13
Rights:: © Mr Michael E. Megeary. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041027
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: BLISS CHARITY SCHOOL SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BLISS CHARITY SCHOOL, THE GREEN
Statutory Address 2:: SCHOOL HOUSE, 2, MIDDLE 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:: BLISS CHARITY SCHOOL, THE GREEN
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL HOUSE, 2, MIDDLE STREET

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Nether Heyford
National Grid Reference:: SP 66083 58515

Details

NETHER HEYFORD THE GREEN SP6658 (North side) 11/142 Bliss Charity School and No.2 Middle Street (School House)

GV II

School and school-house. 1879 with later C19 and C20 extensions by office of E.F. Law. Coursed squared ironstone, ironstone dressings, plain-tile roof, stone ridge, lateral and internal stacks. Victorian Gothic style. H-plan. 2 storeys; 6-window range. Gabled porch to left of centre with plank door and ornamental hinges, stone lintel and small 1-light windows above in head of moulded pointed arched surround with hood mould. 4-light stone mullion windows to ground floor and hipped dormers. Projecting cross wings either end, that to left forming school-house with bay window to ground floor of gable end, 4-light stone mullion and transom window to gable end, circular sexfoiled window above, with small circular windows either side of base, and hood mould with carved label stops. Circular datestone to gable with hood mould and inscribed BLISS/ENDOWED SCHOOLS/FOUNDED AD 1673/REBULT 1879. Caernarvon-arched door to inner side. Similar doorway to left side elevation of school-house wing and to wall joining school-room wing to Heyford Cottage adjacent to right. Chamfered plinth, sill band, stone-coped gables with kneelers and ball finials and square bell-turret with pyramidal roof to ridge of right wing. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SP6608358515

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Legacy System number:: 234773
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.