Uppingham School Offices and Common Room
UPPINGHAM SCHOOL OFFICES AND COMMON ROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073173
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Uppingham School Offices and Common Room
- Statutory Address:
- UPPINGHAM SCHOOL OFFICES AND COMMON ROOM
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073173
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Uppingham School Offices and Common Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPINGHAM SCHOOL OFFICES AND COMMON ROOM
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:
- UPPINGHAM SCHOOL OFFICES AND COMMON ROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Uppingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8653099593
Details
SP 8699-8799 UPPINGHAM
4/5 Uppingham School:
Offices and Common Room
GV
II
House, now offices and common room. 1584, extended late C18, c.1830 and c.1970. Of
coursed squared ironstone and ashlar with Collyweston stone slate roof, coped gables
and stone ridge and end stacks. One storey and attics. Original house L-plan. South
front has 3 C19 2-light windows with chamfered mullions and cornices to ground floor,
and 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned dormer beneath coped gable with finial,
similar to those of library (q.v.) adjoining, but perhaps lengthened as it breaks
slightly through cornice. Small hipped 2-light C19 dormer high in the roof slope.
C19 casement openings, that to the upper dormer with leaded lights. Late C18 and
c.1830 addition to west of ashlar, cross-gabled with decorative ridge tiles. Two
storeys and attic. South front has two 2-light full-length chamfered mullioned
windows, with transom set very high, to ground floor, two 2-light windows with
hood-moulds to first floor and a single-light opening in the gable. Decorative
rainwater heads. West front of original house masked by one-storey,c.1970, addition
lit by sash windows and containing entrance. Two hipped dormers in roof slope visible
behind. West front of late C18 and c.1830 block has 2-storey canted bay window.
Built as warden's house to hospital founded by Robert Johnson, Archdeacon of
Leicester.
Listing NGR: SP8653099593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186742
- 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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