Hatherleigh County Primary School
HATHERLEIGH COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105259
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hatherleigh County Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- HATHERLEIGH COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105259
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hatherleigh County Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HATHERLEIGH COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, SOUTH STREET
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:
- HATHERLEIGH COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatherleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 54128 04209
Details
HATHERLEIGH SOUTH STREET, (south side), SS 5404 Hatherleigh 11/77 Hatherleigh County Primary - School GV II
School. 1875. Sandstone rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. Rubble lateral stack at side of right-hand wing, octagonal stone ashlar stack at end of belfry gable. Plan: school has 4 main rooms - one at either end projecting slightly and 2 at the centre which may originally have been one. Attached at the right-hand end is the schoolmaster's house with an entrance hall connecting the two. C20 additions have been built at the rear. Exterior: school to left is one storey. It has symmetrical front with projecting gable at either end and central projecting gabled belfry. Each of the end gables has a 5-light mullion window the central 3 lights have arched heads. Small trefoils in the gables above. Immediately to the inside of each of the gables is a 2-light stone mullion window. To either side of the belfry is a 2-light mullion with 4- centred heads. The belfry has a gabled roof overhanging the bell with a large quatrefoil panel below. Underneath that is a stone inscribed "Board Schools 1875". Recessed from the right-hand end is the entrance with wide C20 plank doors. 2-light mullion to its left and similar window above under a gable with a small gable to the right over a single light window. The 2-storey school house projects with a canted 4-light bay window on the ground floor and 2-light casement above. Interior not inspected. This school retains an unaltered facade and occupies a prominent elevated position at the entrance to the town.
Listing NGR: SS5412804221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93185
- 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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