2 Old School Houses
2 OLD SCHOOL HOUSES, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129946
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 2 Old School Houses
- Statutory Address:
- 2 OLD SCHOOL HOUSES, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129946
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 2 Old School Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 OLD SCHOOL HOUSES, CHESTER ROAD
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:
- 2 OLD SCHOOL HOUSES, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldford and Saighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 42095 59077
Details
SJ 45 NW ALDFORD C.P. CHESTER ROAD (West side) 6/7 2 Old School Houses
II
Former Schoolhouse, opened April 1872 (Aldford Boys School Logbook in Cheshire Record Office), closed as a school in 1912 and converted to 2 cottages. Built at the expense of the 3rd Marquis of Westminster adjoining the site of an earlier school (tithe map for Aldford 1837 in Cheshire Record Office). Brown brick, English garden wall bond, on battered plinth of squared snecked rubble sandstone; half timbered gables. Steeply pitched red tile roofs with 2 rectangular brick chimneys on main ridge. One and a half storeys with a front of 4 windows. The former school hall, left, has gables to front and end on stone corbels; the Schoolmaster's house, right, has a half dormer gable to front and, central, a small dormer under a raking roof. Small-pane iron casements in bevelled mullioned openings of sandstone in the lower storey and timber-framed openings in the upper one. Framed and boarded doors. Interiors not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4209559077
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55202
- 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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