CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, CLAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126445
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, CLAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126445
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, CLAY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, CLAY 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:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, CLAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, CLAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Soham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5915273025
Details
TL 5973
13/45
SOHAM
CLAY STREET
(South Side)
Church of England Primary School and School House
II
School and school house built on asymmetrical plan in 1863.
School of brick with flint casing and yellow gault brick
quoins. Clunch dressings to doors and windows. Steeply pitched
slate roof with shaped and pierced bargeboarding to gable ends
and originally with crested ridge tiles, now removed. Plan of
single storey hall with offices to right hand forming a cross-
wing. Hall has paired gables with similar bargeboarding to two
Gothic windows with transome and mullion and three other
windows, with pointed arches to each of three lights. The
crosswing has two gables with similar bargeboarding and two
Gothic windows, also with tracery. The school house is linked
to the school by a wall with an opening in a pointed arch. The
house is also of brick with flint exterior, yellow gault brick
quoins and clunch dressings to windows and doors. Steeply
pitched slate roof retaining the original crested ridge tiles
and similar bargeboarding. Two storeys. A bargeboarded gable
to a two-light window with Y-tracery in a two-centred head. At
ground floor, one canted bay with hipped roof and traceried
lights, one retaining the original diamond leaded lights. The
gable end has a canted oriel window with three leaded lights,
each with tracery. The school retains the original register.
Listing NGR: TL5915273025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48855
- 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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