Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse
CRANFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, COURT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114028
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CRANFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, COURT ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114028
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRANFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, COURT ROAD
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:
- CRANFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, COURT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 95644 42111
Details
CRANFIELD COURT ROAD SP9442 Cranfield Primary School 3/4 and Schoolhouse GV II
School and schoolhouse. 1862 by T.C. Hine for the Rev. G. G. Harter (Hine designed Cranfield Court, now demolished, for the Rev. Harter). Snecked limestone with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs. Loosely Gothic in style. Ranged around 3 sides of a courtyard, open towards the road. 2 storeyed schoolhouse forms LH wing, whilst school consists of 2 storeyed wing to rear and single storeyed wing to RH. 3 storeyed octagonal tower with conical roof within angle of 2 wings of school. Schoolhouse: road gable has ground floor canted bay, paired single lights to first floor, and small trefoil to attic 2 storeyed gabled porch projects from courtyard side. The ground floor is open, the central archway and flanking lights having trefoiled arches and foliate capitals supported by columns of a pink stone. Most windows are of paired trefoiled lights. School: rear block has 3 pointed-arched doorways and windows of 2 and 3 lights. Tower has pointed-arched 2-light window with cinquefoil in head to first floor, and cusped rose windows to top floor. Single lights elsewhere on tower. RH block gable end has 3-light pointed-arched window with cusped rose window within head, polychrome head, and foliate stops to dripstone. Small quatrefoil to attic, like schoolhouse, windows are mostly trefoiled lights, grouped in 2's and 3's. Rear block has carved panel: "Deo et Ecclesiae" and RH gable has small panel with initials G.G.H. Gables are stone-coped, with ornamental gablets, that to schoolhouse topped by ornate finial.
Listing NGR: SP9564442111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38301
- 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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