The School House
THE SCHOOL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126377
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126377
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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 HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 66270 69763
Details
TL 66 NE CHIPPENHAM HIGH STREET (south-west side)
6/69 The School 1.12.51 House (formerly listed as School) GV II*
House, late C17, rebuilt c.1708 as a village school by Lord Orford, with medieval limestone and clunch foundations and basement walls. Local buff and red brick with red brick window and door jambs and quoins; limestone details. Plain tile hipped roof. One storey and basement with small C19 single storey brick extension to rear built as a soup kitchen. Facade altered in C19 when original triangular pediment was removed, and the parapets and possibly the window arches rebuilt. Symmetrical facade divided by giant brick pilasters with dentil enriched stone cornices; plinth with moulded stone band and three round, red gauged brick basement windows now sealed. Main entrance approached by brick steps and low side walls; eight, raised and fielded panelled door and rectangular fanlight with glazing bars in moulded wooden architrave. Wooden cornice forming shallow canopy supported on carved brackets. Eight round headed windows with fixed lights and glazing bars in original wooden frames in gauged brick arches with stone imposts and fanned key blocks. Interior converted to a dwelling. Basement approached from rear by C17 brick steps, has similar bricks in some internal walls and tunnel vaults. The clunch walls, possibly C13, with some re-used stone have two projecting corbels and possibly formed the foundations and basement walls to the Knights Hospitlers preceptory.
Wm Cole. Mss. Chippenham, C.R.O. Estate Map 1712 of Lord Orford's Estate. C.R.O. Barber R W. History of Chippenham, pp.10, 29. 1897 Pevsner. Buildings in England, p.322 V.C.H., Cambs. Vol. 2, p.264-66
Listing NGR: TL6627069763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48994
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1948), 264-266
Barber, RW, History of Chippenham, (1897), 10
Barber, RW, History of Chippenham, (1897), 29
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 322
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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