Creswell Church of England Infants School
CRESWELL CHURCH OF ENGLAND INFANTS SCHOOL, ELMTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045900
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Creswell Church of England Infants School
- Statutory Address:
- CRESWELL CHURCH OF ENGLAND INFANTS SCHOOL, ELMTON ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13070/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045900
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Creswell Church of England Infants School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRESWELL CHURCH OF ENGLAND INFANTS SCHOOL, ELMTON 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:
- CRESWELL CHURCH OF ENGLAND INFANTS SCHOOL, ELMTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Bolsover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmton with Creswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5268874380
Details
SK 57 SW PARISH OF ELMTON WITH CRESWELL ELMTON ROAD,CRESWELL
5/123 (South Side)
5.4.78 Creswell Church of
England Infants School
GV II
School, now disused. Founded in 1874 by the Portland Estate. 1881 and 1886 by
William Fils and George Stevenson. c1900 by Brewill & Bally. Jacobean style. Red
brick with sandstone dressings and quoins. Welsh slate roof. Various brick stacks.
Stone coped gables with plain kneelers and spearhead and ball finials. Single storey.
North elevation of six irregular bays. Projecting gabled bay to the left has a 5-
light chamfered mullion window set high up and with a hoodmould. Louvred bell-cote.
Entrance set back to the right has a round-arched doorway with key and impost
blocks. Small single-light window on the left. To the right are two 4-light
mullioned and transomed windows either side of a canted bay window which breaks
through the eaves, rising to a parapet and gable. The window is of 1-4-1 lights,
with two transoms. Projecting gabled bay to the right has two 3-light chamfered
mullion windows with two transoms. To the right again a 3-light mullioned and
transomed window rising into a gabled dormer with ball finials on the kneelers.
Source: Academy Architecture 1901 Vol.2 p.40.
Listing NGR: SK5268874380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79293
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Academy Architecture in Academy Architecture, Vol. 2, (1901), 40
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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