OLD SCHOOL BUILDING SCHOOL HOUSE

OLD SCHOOL BUILDING, B5278

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1087138
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL BUILDING SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL BUILDING, B5278

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1087138
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL BUILDING SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SCHOOL BUILDING, B5278
Statutory Address 2:: SCHOOL HOUSE, B5278

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL BUILDING, B5278
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL HOUSE, B5278

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lower Holker
National Grid Reference:: SD 36099 76920

Details

LOWER HOLKER B5278 SD 3676 (East side) Holker 9/123 School House and Old 25.3.70 School Building (formerly listed as Holker Schoolhouse) G.V. II School, now community hall, and house. After 1849. Possibly by George Webster. Dressed limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roof. School of one storey and 4 bays, the 1st bay projects under gable, 3rd bay breaks forward under gable. House of 2 storeys to left return. Rock-faced stone base and quoins. School has sill course. 1st bay has 5-light double- chamfered-mullioned window, the central 3 lights higher with transom, and label; upper triangular-headed light. 3rd bay has 3-light window similar to that to 1st bay. 2 windows to 2nd bay, that to left is small, over porch, that to right is tall, cutting sill course, both with chamfered reveals and C20 casements. 4th bay has 2 tall windows cutting sill course with C20 casements. Large C20 re-entrant hipped porch. Cross-axial stack with octagonal shafts. Right return has window as 1st bay of front. House has single bay to front with hipped roof and gablet to 1st floor window with plain bargeboards. Windows have label moulds to lintels and 2-light casements with iron glazing bars, in octagon and square pattern common to the Holker estate, one light to ground floor window now has plate glass. Left return of 3 bays, the 1st bay part of school, 2nd bay projects under gable, 3rd bay has C20 lean-to porch. Windows mostly as to front; 1st bay has large 4-light casement with transom and plain glazing with gabled dormer to 1st floor; 3rd bay has gablet to 1st floor window. C20 lean-to porch to 1st bay. Cross-axial stack and valley stack as above. Rear has gabled bay with 5-light window as to front; truncated lateral stack and lean-to outshut.

Listing NGR: SD3609976920

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Legacy System number:: 77037
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.