The Old School North of Church of St Peter
THE OLD SCHOOL NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086555
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School North of Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086555
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School North of Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heversham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD4960083458
Details
SD 48 SE
2/4
HEVERSHAM
Heversham
The Old School North
of Church of St Peter
(q.v)
G.V.
II
Old Girls School. Initials and date JG on gable. Slobbered rubble walls with
................................................1838
stone dressings; graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge. Single storey.
Gable to left. 3 2-light windows with trefoil heads to lights, hood moulds and
chamfered stops. The school was built as the first Girls School in Heversham at
the expense of James J. Gandy of Kendal. Work started to erect it and a school
house in the Churchyard without permission. After a number of meetings had been
held it was resolved that the school could be built in the Churchyard, provided
it was fenced off, and land adjacent to the Churchyard was donated by George
Wilson of Dallam Towers on which a School House (q.v) was erected at the expense
of the Hon Mrs Howard. Further details: Curwen, John F. History of Heversham
with Milnthorpe, pub. Titus Wilson, Kendal 1930.
Listing NGR: SD4960083458
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76497
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curwen, F, History of Heversham with Milnthorpe, (1930)
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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