The Former National Girls School
Bassett Rooms, Church Street, Ashover, S45 0AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096965
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Former National Girls School
- Statutory Address:
- Bassett Rooms, Church Street, Ashover, S45 0AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096965
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Former National Girls School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bassett Rooms, Church Street, Ashover, S45 0AB
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:
- Bassett Rooms, Church Street, Ashover, S45 0AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashover
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 34922 63130
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 May 2025 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SK3463
1264-0/11/35
ASHOVER
CHURCH STREET (east side)
Bassett Rooms
The Former National Girls School
(Formerly listed as The Former National Girls School, CHURCH STREET, previously listed as: Village Hall Formerly School)
31/01/67
GV
II
Former National Girls' School. Dated 1845. Horizontally tooled ashlar gritstone, with ashlar dressings, plinth, moulded cornice with blocking course, coped Dutch gable to porch, crow-stepped gables, and a concrete tiled roof.
Two storeys and three bays, with an advanced two storey gabled porch which has shallow corner piers. Central doorway with moulded ashlar surround, and a three-centred arched lintel beneath a hood mould with label stops. Above is a dated rectangular plaque, and, above that, a quatrefoil opening. Flanking the porch are bays with stacked tall three-light chamfered mullioned windows, each light with a three-centred arched head, all beneath a hood mould with label stops. The corners to this elevation have shallow diagonal buttresses which terminate at first floor window head height. C20 planked door to doorway, and leaded lights to all window openings. The plaque above the doorway is inscribed: 'Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it (Prov.XXII.6) In Dei laudem, et in ijujusqe parochiae usum hanc scholam dedicabit'.
Listing NGR: SK3492263130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393444
- 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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