Old School House and Old School
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119211
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House and Old School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL
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- Date:
- 2002-06-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/07673/09
- Rights:
- © Rev Andrew Salmon. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119211
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House and Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND OLD SCHOOL
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 AND OLD SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Knighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 73326 87676
Details
SY 78 NW WEST KNIGHTON
6/81 Old Schoolhouse and Old School 26.1.56 II GV
Former Schoolhouse and attached School, now two private dwellings. Dated HB 1865. Dressed stone walls and ashlar quoins. Clay tile roof with gable ends and gabled to front, stone gable copings and ovolo moulded kneelers. Stone stacks with heavy capstones at left gable, and at right inner gable. Schoolhouse: two storeys, three windows, 2 : 1 : 2, straight chamfered stone mullions with separate returned labels over, cast iron casements with lozenge pattern of glazing bars. Doorway at centre has a depressed arch head and straight chamfered jambs, plank door with strap hinges, separate label over. School: one storey, three windows, 3 : 2 cross transomed: 3 lights with separate returned labels. C20 metal casements with lozenge leaded lights. Projecting bellcote in bay 2 has weathered buttresses and capstones. Porch entrance at south end of front wall gabled with a clock in the gable, entrance has a two centred head and separate label, plank door C20.
Listing NGR: SY7332787679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105973
- 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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