Formerly The Old School
Old School East and Old School West, The Butts, Warkworth, NE65 0SP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041737
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Formerly The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- Old School East and Old School West, The Butts, Warkworth, NE65 0SP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041737
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Formerly The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old School East and Old School West, The Butts, Warkworth, NE65 0SP
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:
- Old School East and Old School West, The Butts, Warkworth, NE65 0SP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warkworth
- National Grid Reference:
- NU2491106125
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 February 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
NU 2406
21/255
WARKWORTH
THE BUTTS (East side)
Old School East and Old School West
(Formerly listed as The Old School)
GV
II
Former National School. Founded 1824, extended by the addition of school rooms for infants and girls 1852. Roughly-squared stone with cut quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles. Cruciform plan. Tudor style. Single storey, 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 bays. Projecting gabled centre has chamfered plinth and five-light window with hoodmould stepped up over the taller transomed central light; slit above. Stepped-and-corniced stack on left return. Flanking parts have central stepped stacks, upper parts rebuilt, between pairs of two- and three-light mullioned windows; left end has corbelled-out gabled bellcote with pointed arch and moulded finial. At each end a lower porch with a vertical-panelled door under a flat-pointed head within a square frame, with hoodmould. Twin slits in gables of main part, single slits in gables of porches. All windows 12-pane sashes. All openings in recessed and chamfered surrounds; all gables coped, on moulded kneelers.
Fenestration at rear altered.
Listing NGR: NU2491106125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237146
- 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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