Old School
OLD SCHOOL, LEICESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074082
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Old School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL, LEICESTER ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06480/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074082
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL, LEICESTER 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:
- OLD SCHOOL, LEICESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Groby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 52606 07490
Details
SK 50 NW
4/23
GROBY,
LEICESTER ROAD (north east side),
Old School
(Formerly listed as Former School now Shop (No 53))
11.6.75
II
Former school, now house. 1873. Randomly coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof with Gothic style cresting, single ridge and wall stacks with chamfered cornices. Single storey 4-bay front with stepped and chamfered string course and chamfered buttresses. The left hand bay is advanced and gabled with a fretted bargeboard. It contains a 2-light window with Caernarvon arches to the lights and stone tracery to the head. At the top of the pointed and moulded surround is an inscription recording the foundation of the school by the Countess of Stamford and Warrington and above is her cypher and the date 1873 on an ashlar panel. To right are 3 pairs of pointed windows with chamfered ashlar surrounds. All windows are plain top hung casements. To the right-hand side is a gabled porch, with a double chamfered and pointed outer arch and a triangular headed inner door.
Listing NGR: SK5260607490
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188530
- 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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