The School
The School, The Green, Burrough Green
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126344
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The School
- Statutory Address:
- The School, The Green, Burrough Green
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126344
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The School
- Statutory Address 1:
- The School, The Green, Burrough Green
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:
- The School, The Green, Burrough Green
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burrough Green
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6376455536
Details
TL 65 NW
6/26
BURROUGH GREEN
THE GREEN (west side)
The School
1.12.51
GV
II
School dated 1714, date on plaster panel in gable wall partly covered by extension in 1877 when it became the National School; cross-wing built c.1920 with plaque '1914-1919'. Clunch with some limestone repair, red brick gable walls. Slate roof steeply pitched.
One storey, symmetrical facade with central doorway sealed with original moulded architrave, key block, and cornice. Two round arch niches above, one to left hand of girl with inscription 'TRAIN UP A CHILD', one to right hand of a boy with inscription 'NAKED AND YE CLOTHED ME'. Two large round arched hung sash windows shaped to arch. Rusticated quoins; moulded cornice. Original school built with money from the will of Samuel Richardson.
Listing NGR: TL6376455536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, , History of Burrough Green, (1939)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 147
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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