Old School and School House
OLD SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091370
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old School and School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091370
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old School and School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE
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 AND SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Highnam
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 79720 19649
Details
HIGHNAM HIGHNAM VILLAGE SO 7819-7919 9/51 Old School and School House GV II Now doctor's surgery and community hall, formerly school and school mistress's house. 1851 by H. Woodyer for T. Gambier-Parry; later extended. Squared, roughly coursed lias, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. Originally 'T plan, school room single storey, house in stem 1 1/2 storey, one room deep: later single-storey schoolroom added to infill rear angle. Entrance front faces away from road: gable to schoolroom on right, boarded door up 3 stone steps, arched head with hoodmould and floriate stops; angled corner buttress on right. Two-light plate tracery window above, ovolo surround. Chimney rises off bottom of left slope. House set back on left: 3-light mullioned window, trefoil heads in line. Open timber porch to left, heavy timber corner posts on stone plinth, cambered tie beam, 'V' struts over, plain barge boards. Sides open with curved braces to wallplate, above weatherboarding within main frame, stone plinth. Internally wooden benches each side, boarded door at rear. Above 2-light window rising into stone dormer on right, single- light window below eaves off-centre to right over porch, both leaded lights, iron opening lights. Stone lean-to on left gable not of special interest. Right return moulded string course at window sill level: three 2-light mullion and transom windows, circle over heads, rising into stone gables, plain barge boards. Angled buttress each end: rendered projection in centre not of special interest. Internally, schoolrooms form 'L', boarded panelling to dado, painted brickwork above. Fireplace across inside angle, corbelled arched stone head, moulded corbel restores angle above. Trusses hidden by inserted ceilings: rise from plain corbels. Forms group with church, village hall, old rectory and Church Lodge, (q.v.). School said to be 1851, not 1850 as rain- water head. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; T.J. Fenton, A History and Guide to the Church of the Holy Innocents, Highnam, 1985)
Listing NGR: SO7972119652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134342
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Fenton, TJ, A History and Guide to the Church of the Holy Innocents, (1985)
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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