Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HILLSIDE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083567
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HILLSIDE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083567
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HILLSIDE 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:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HILLSIDE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Amwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37223 12441
Details
GREAT AMWELL HILLSIDE LANE TL 3712 (north side)
12/31 Great Amwell village Old School House 70 metres south-east of parish church
GV II
Former village school and master's house now linked as a private house. Foundation stone 1857, but present buildings probably 1875 (VCH (1912) 414). Red brick: red tile roofs, some tile hanging. A high single-storey schoolroom lying E-W with 2 lower wings on N side, roof carried down over enclosed porch on W side of NW wing. Very tall chimneys with many steps on plan carried up full height to multi stepped corbelled tops. 2 chimneys at NW are bridged by a small roof at half-height, from which the bell is suspended. Large wooden mullioned and transomed windows in gables and carried above eaves on N side with flatter pitched roof. Some gables half-hipped, one and a half storeys house on E with same materials and detailing and wooden oriel in N gable. The school has a low plinth and a moulded band below the windows. A picturesque building overlooking the churchyard.
Listing NGR: TL3722312441
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355839
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912)
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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