Lucton School
LUCTON SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1082082
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Lucton School
- Statutory Address:
- LUCTON SCHOOL
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- Date:
- 2003-08-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/10792/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1082082
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Lucton School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUCTON SCHOOL
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:
- LUCTON SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lucton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43807 64497
Details
LUCTON CP - SO 46 SW
5/33 Lucton School
11.6.59
- II*
School. 1708, extended 1886. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof. U-plan, front range aligned north-west/south-east contains central entrance hall, office to south, headmaster's room to south. Rear wings to south-west, the northern one containing kitchens, the south a dining room. North-east front: two storeys with attic lit by two hipped dormers. Chamfered ashlar quoins, moulded stone cornice and brick band to ground floor. 2 + 3 + 2 bays, the central portion slightly advanced with pediment bearing a painted clockface inscribed: "IP/ 1708", within a scrolled frame. The windows have boxed glazing bar sashes, the boxes with light mould- ings. Central bay contains a niche with semi-circular head containing a painted stone statue of the founder, John Pierrepont, almost life-size. Ground floor windows are 15-pane boxed sashes under segmental heads. Entrance has a semi-domed wooden canopy resting on carved and scrolled brackets. The roof is crowned by a central wooden bell turret of square plan with arched openings, cornice and ogee-shaped lead roof. The wrought iron weathervane is dated 1708. South-east front has a datestone set in a rebuilt chimney stack inscribed: "Ex sumptibus/ Johannes Pierrepont/ Ano Domi MDCCVII". Interior: entrance hall has large rectangular panelling with shallow moulding and stone bolection moulded fireplace. Office has similar panelling. Fireplace with ovolo moulding and small terminating scrolls. Headmaster's room has painted bolection moulded panelling and bolected moulded fireplace. Staircase behind this room has turned balusters, moulded handrail and moulded string. It ascends to the attics. The Dining Room has C18 panelling at the upper end. It-also contains a memorial to John Pierrepont, died 1711, removed from Lucton Church in1975. Most of the first floor has dado panelling and panelled doors. (BoE, pp 242-3; RCHM 3, PP 137-8).
Listing NGR: SO4380764497
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149436
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 137 138
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 242 243
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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