Payhembury School
PAYHEMBURY SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098120
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Payhembury School
- Statutory Address:
- PAYHEMBURY SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098120
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Payhembury School
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAYHEMBURY SCHOOL
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:
- PAYHEMBURY SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Payhembury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 08723 01679
Details
PAYHEMBURY ST 00 SE 3/112 Payhembury School - GV II
School. Dated 1851, extended in the late C19. Local stone rubble, the original school is faced with snecked grey limestone ashlar; sandstone ashlar detail; stone rubble stack topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof. Plan: school faces south-east. It is set back from the road set high on a terrace. It has a 3 or 4-room plan. The right half is the original section and has a central front porch and rear lateral stack. The right-hand addition continues the same roofline and is a plainer Tudor Gothic style than the original. Single storey. Exterior: the original school has a symmetrical 2-window front, a stone-mullioned 3-light window with hoodmould either side of a gabled porch. Front window of the porch is arch-headed with stone Y-tracery. Above is a plaque with a Gothic inscription; "Payhembury National School, 1851". Plain door in right side. Extension has an irregular 2-window front of plain stone-mullioned windows, the larger right one has a gable over containing a small oculus. Roof is gable-ended. Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST0872801684
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86869
- 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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