Village School and Masters House
VILLAGE SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, MALTHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067556
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Village School and Masters House
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, MALTHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067556
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Village School and Masters House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VILLAGE SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, MALTHOUSE 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:
- VILLAGE SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE, MALTHOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chute
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 30621 53617
Details
The following building shall be added:-
CHUTE MALTHOUSE LANE, Chute SU35SW Standen 1381-0/10/10002 Village School and Master's House II
School and master's house, now village hall. 1857-8; by William White. Flint rubble with red brick dressings. Plain tile roof with gabled ends and half-hipped gables. Brick lateral, axial and gable-end stacks with set-offs and batters. PLAN: Three schoolrooms at right angles to each other and the master's house attached to the north east. Gothic Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: Single-storey schoolrooms and 1-storey and attic master's house. Asymmetrical gabled elevations. South front: Projecting gable on left with tall pointed-arch window and short angle-buttresses; gabled porch in the angle to the right with flanking weathered buttresses supporting gable with deep verges; two tall pointed-arch windows to right with buttress between, rising into small half-hipped gable with wrought-iron finial. West side: Gable on right with tall pointed arch window and large porch in angle on left with flanking weathered buttresses supporting gable with deep verges; gable set back on left with pointed arch window in gable with sexfoil light. East side: Master's House on right with two half-hipped dormers and windows with twin pointed-arch heads, gable set back on left with tall pointed arch window and porch in the angle with flanking weathered buttresses supporting gable with herring-bone infilling and deep verges. INTERIOR: Schoolrooms have arched-brace roofs, later suspended ceilings and folding partitions. SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 178.
Listing NGR: SU3087453838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1963), 178
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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