School, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining Wall

SCHOOL, FORMER SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109300
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
School, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining Wall
Statutory Address:
SCHOOL, FORMER SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, THE SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109300
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
School, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining Wall
Statutory Address 1:
SCHOOL, FORMER SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, THE SQUARE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
SCHOOL, FORMER SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, THE SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:
Parwich
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SK 18589 54524

Details

SK 18 54 PARISH OF PARWICH THE SQUARE 10/102 (West Side) School, former Schoolmaster's House and retaining wall

GV II

School and former Schoolmaster's house, now all the school. Dated 1861. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone with sandstone dressings. Plain and fishscale tiled roofs and stone coped gables. Two stone ridge stacks. Irregular V-plan, the single storey school in the west wing with gabled cross wing, the former school- master's house in the north wing, one and a half storeys. Gabled porch at the angle, surmounted by a wooden bell and clock turret with steep pyramid roof. South elevation of five bays. Central projecting gabled bay with a three trefoiled light, stepped window with hoodmoulds carried down the sides to form a stringcourse. Two bays either side divided by buttresses with two set-offs. Each bay with a two trefoiled-light window with hoodmould carried down to form a stringcourse. Former schoolmaster's house to the north with lower roof. East elevation with a steeply gabled porch, flanked on each side by a casement window and a further similar window to the right, all with hoodmoulds, linked by a stringcourse. Two casement windows above in half dormers. Stone retaining wall surmounted by railings and with steps at the angle up to the porch.

Listing NGR: SK1858954524

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Legacy System number:
80373
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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