Old Grammar School
OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046152
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Old Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046152
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Old Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
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 GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 70108 53883
Details
SOUTHWELL
CHURCH STREET SK7053 1919-0/11/45 (South side) 09/02/73 Old Grammar School (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET The Old Grammar School (PW Gascoine and others))
GV II
Former Grammar School, now offices. 1819, with late C19 additions. Brick with dressed stone plinth and hipped and gabled slate roof. 2 string courses, chamfered eaves, single gable, ridge and side wall stacks. Windows are glazing bar sashes of various sizes, with rubbed brick heads. 3 storeys, 3x6 bays. Pedimented north gable, to street, has a central blank flanked by single windows on each floor, those to the upper floor being smaller. In a recess to the right, a round headed doorway with plain fanlight and above it, a single sash on each floor. To left, a late C19 flat roofed porch with cornice and ramped parapet, and a 3-light mullioned window. On its left side, a doorway. Above the porch, a tablet inscribed "Collegiate Grammar School of Southwell". Hipped end, to Minster churchyard, has regular fenestration with a central full-height sash on the ground floor. Interior has a stone dogleg stair with stick balusters.
Listing NGR: SK7010853883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242336
- 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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