Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 1-4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100459
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 1-4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100459
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 1-4
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 HOUSE, 1-4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chipperfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 04311 01599
Details
CHIPPERFIELD THE COMMON TL 0401 (North side) 12/65 Nos 1-4 Old School House -
GV II
Village school, now 4 houses. 1840, W extension 1892, E gable and Victoria commemoration clock in gable turret 1897, converted to houses c.1980. Uncoursed flints with red brick dressings to doors, windows, quoins and verges. Stone dressings to E gable clock turret. Steep slate roofs with bands of spade-shaped slates. Shingled spire and vane to central cupola. An H-plan 1½ storeys block with lower recessed central part and gabled flanking wings. 3 windows front with small 2-light upper window in each gable, 4-light gabled dormer on roof slope centre, and gabled open porch to door on RH of centre. 4-light Gothic wooden casements with leaded glazing in chamfered brick openings with brick labels. Similar treatment to gable windows. Heads of front windows lowered leaving labels higher. Higher 1½ storeys matching W extension. Included for group value. (Kelly(1914)90).
Listing NGR: TL0442001656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1914), 90
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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