Former National School and Schoolmaster's House
FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121478
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former National School and Schoolmaster's House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121478
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former National School and Schoolmaster's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Spennymoor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22550 33780
Details
NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR CHURCH STREET (East side) Byers Green
5/35 (inset) Former National school and schoolmaster's house GV II
National school and schoolmaster's house. Dated 1852 over house window. Possibly by G.Y. Wall, architect of Church of St. Peter, Byers Green (q.v.). Coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and ridge. Jacobean style. 2-storey, 3-bay house has first bay projecting under front gable; chamfered stone surround to renewed door in second bay under relieving arch; similar treatment to windows, with 2 lights in outer bays and one over door, the lower blocked and the upper with glazing bars; late C19 sash over door. Right end window on first floor breaks eaves under gable; low-relief date in panel in left bay gable peak. Steeply-pitched roof has copings on curved kneelers. Right return has external stack with offsets; chimney removed. Right return continuous with school attached to rear of house: one storey, 2 wide bays, with central buttress flanked by gabled blocked windows breaking eaves. Rear gable of school has tracery in high 2-centred-arched window. Left -return has one-storey cross wing to school, with paired 8-pane sashes.
House empty at time of survey; school used as church hall.
Unsigned plans are similar in type of handwriting to those of Church of St. Peter. It is likely that a professional architect would have signed them; St. Peter was designed by a 'land agent'.
Source: Durham County Record Office E/SB P8.
Listing NGR: NZ2255033780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112241
- 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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