The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049850
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049850
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Baconsthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 12667 36933
Details
TG 13 NW BACONSTHORPE SCHOOL LANE
7/9 The Old School 13.10.83. (formerly listed as The School, Church Lane)
II
Former school, now village hall, dated 1816. Pebble flint with brick dressings; hipped roof corrugated tiles to front, black glazed pantiles to sides, pantiles to rear. 3 bays with outshuts to rear. South front with chamfered brick cap to flint plinth, dentil cornice, axial stack to right; 3 windows with rusticated brick jambs, central window of 6 lights under brick pediment, inscription '1816 National School' within pediment; 3-light casement to left with moulded brick pediment infilled with pebble flint; later 4-light window to right under soldier arch. Large 5-light dormer window under hipped roof to central bay. Early C20 large 4-light windows with transoms to left and right returns. Entrance in outshut to left return having 4-centred brick arch containing fanlight with 3 vertical glazing bars above door. Interior: 2 rooms of 1 and 2 bays, boarded roof, wainscot. Plan of school unaltered since before 1867; left window and central pediment conform to sketch design of 1816 in County Record office. (Ref. P/BG/5 for 1867, PD 334/28 for 1815).
Listing NGR: TG1266736933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224562
- 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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