Old School Cottage
OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125562
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125562
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE
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 COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Medmenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 80804 84858
Details
MEDMENHAM SCHOOL LANE SU 88 SW 8/157 Old School Cottage (formerly listed as Cottage adjoining and East of Medmenham C. of E. Primary School) 29.10.76 GV II House, formerly that of school-mistress. Circa 1899. By Romaine Walker, for Mr. Robert Hudson of Medmenham Abbey and Danesfield. Lower storey of dressed chalk blocks with sand-stone dressings and ovolo- moulded mullion windows; upper storey roughcast and colourwashed with wooden bressumer, the gable ends jettied on curved wooden brackets. Plain tile roof, wooden bargeboards, brick chimneys to left and rear with 'V' pilasters and off-set heads. Picturesque. 1½ storeys 3 bays. Outer bays have 4-light windows toground floor. Centre has panelled door in 4-centred arch with curved spandrels, and 2-storey gabled porch. Porch has upper storey jettied on shaped brackets and small modillion cornice, 3-light wooden casement to first floor, and turned wooden balusters to side walls of ground floor. Other 3-light leaded casements to first floor in gable ends. (Country Life, 22nd September 1900).
Listing NGR: SU8080484858
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47040
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 22 September, (1900)
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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