Hanley Castle High School (Western Block)
HANLEY CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL (WESTERN BLOCK), CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098820
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hanley Castle High School (Western Block)
- Statutory Address:
- HANLEY CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL (WESTERN BLOCK), CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098820
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hanley Castle High School (Western Block)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANLEY CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL (WESTERN BLOCK), CHURCH END
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:
- HANLEY CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL (WESTERN BLOCK), CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hanley Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83927 41960
Details
HANLEY CASTLE CP CHURCH END SO 84 SW 3/141 Hanley Castle High School (western block) [formerly 11.8.52 listed as Grammar School] GV II
School, formerly grammar school. C17 with later alterations. Brick and timber-framing with tile roof. Two storeys. One gable faces north-west. The ground floor is underbuilt with brick and has a window. To the left is a doorway and window with stone surround. The first floor is close- studded with a middle rail and has a central window, and a small window at the left. Between the tie-beam and collar of the truss are vertical struts. Above are V-struts. Facing south-west, towards the churchyard, are three parallel gables. The outer ones are of brick painted to resemble timber- framing. The right-hand gable has a truss with struts between tie-beam and collar. The middle gabled range is framed in irregular square panels. It has one window on the ground floor, two on the first floor, and one between the tie-beam and collar of the truss lighting the attic. Adjoining to the south-east is a lower range of brick with a dog-tooth course at the eaves. Its south-west wall is blank except for two windows towards the right with segmental heads. A carved stone plaque has a Latin inscription illegible at time of survey (June 1986). Reputed to be the Grammar School in Market Snodsbury in the book, Right Ho Jeeves, by P G Wodehouse. See Murphy, N T P: In Search of Blandings, London, 1981, p 206-7.
Listing NGR: SO8392741960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153282
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Murphy, N T P, In Search of Blandings, (1981), 206-7
Wodehouse, P G, Right Ho Jeeves, ()
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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