Saint Martin's School the Old School House
SAINT MARTIN'S SCHOOL, GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101478
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Saint Martin's School the Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- SAINT MARTIN'S SCHOOL, GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101478
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Saint Martin's School the Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAINT MARTIN'S SCHOOL, GREEN LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, GREEN LANE
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:
- SAINT MARTIN'S SCHOOL, GREEN LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, GREEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 77402 92492
Details
SJ 79 SE SALE GREEN LANE (west side)
3/165 Saint Martin's School and The Old School 12.5.76 House
G.V. II
School and schoolmaster's house. Dated 1874, tower 1877. W. Brakspear for Sir William Cunliffe Brooks. Free Gothic style. Header bond brick, stone dressings and slate roofs. T-shaped single-storey school (of 7 x 4 bays) with corner clock tower and adjoining house of 2 storeys. The school has projecting plinth, sill band, decorative applied timber eaves band, steeply pitched roof, coped gables with kneelers, and triangular roof vents. Each bay has a 2-light stone dressed mullion window with heavy transom. The clock tower forms an important street feature with it's commemorative stone plaque, stone quoins and bands, open belfry, pyramidal roof and weather vane. The 3-bay schoolmaster's house is attached by an elaborate arched entrance with foundation stone above and has similar details except for the cusped window heads, picturesque porch and dormer window, polychromatic relieving arches and crested ridge tiles.
Listing NGR: SJ7740292492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212924
- 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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