Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace
FORMER FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND SCHOOL, TOADHOLE FURNACE, SHIRLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087784
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND SCHOOL, TOADHOLE FURNACE, SHIRLAND ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-05-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/13781/36
- Rights:
- © Mr John G Hinchcliffe. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087784
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND SCHOOL, TOADHOLE FURNACE, SHIRLAND 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:
- FORMER FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND SCHOOL, TOADHOLE FURNACE, SHIRLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shirland and Higham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3891956947
Details
SK 35 NE
4/65
5-2-73
PARISH OF SHIRLAND & HIGHAM
SHIRLAND ROAD
(South Side)
Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace
II
Friends Meeting House and school. 1743. Coursed sandstone rubble, gritstone
dressings. Slate roofs. Stone gable end stack to Meeting House. Single bay,
single storey meeting house to east. Two storey, single bay school house to west
with flight of stone steps between the buildings. Meeting House has 2-light
flush mullion window with C20 leaded lights to east. Quoined, flush doorcase
to west with lintel inscribed 'Matthew Hopkinson 1743' in incised plaque. West
gable wall has 2-light flush mullion and flights of steps up to plain doorcase
with plank door. Interior has gallery to west. School house lower with four
centred arch, quoined doorcase to west gable wall. Two glazing bar sashes in
flush surrounds above.
Listing NGR: SK3891956947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79453
- 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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