National School
NATIONAL SCHOOL, THE CHIPPING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088942
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- National School
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL SCHOOL, THE CHIPPING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088942
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- National School
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL SCHOOL, THE CHIPPING
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:
- NATIONAL SCHOOL, THE CHIPPING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wotton-under-Edge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75650 93120
Details
ST 7693 4/19 WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE THE CHIPPING (east)
National School
II
National School, now school hall. 1837. Squared and coursed stone with ashlar buttresses and dressings; welsh slate roof in steep pitch. Single free-standing unit in six bays on one level with plain glazed lancets in double chamfer surrounds, grouped triple lancets in north and south gables. Plat buttresses with double offset. Small pointed doorway, left, with rich decoration including chevron, dog-tooth, and ball flower, reputed to be from Kingswood Abbey (no documentary evidence) and largely rebuilt. Gables with flat stone copings, and floriated apex cross north end only. Later small unit at right angles linked to south end. Plain interior, new dropped ceiling. Three small niches, possibly book cupboards, in west wall.
Listing NGR: ST7565093120
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 128063
- 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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