The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HEATH COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135545
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HEATH COMMON
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- Date:
- 2001-06-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/04347/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135545
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HEATH COMMON
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 OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, HEATH COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Warmfield cum Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 35795 20038
Details
SE 3519 and SE 3520 WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH HEATH COMMON (east side)
6/74 The Old School 14.2.52 House (formerly listed as "School House")
GV II
Endowed school and attached Master's house, now house. c1660 with alterations c1751 when schoolmaster's house was added. Large well-coursed gritstone, punch-dressed to addition, stone-slate roof. Single-storey school with 2-storey master's cottage. Quoins. School house has 3-bay facade with central doorway with double tie-stone jambs, deep Tudor-arched lintel with chamfered surround. To either side a 3-light double-chamfered mullioned-and-transomed window. Coped gables with kneelers. Set back to right, Master's house has doorway with monolithic lintel to left of window with monolithic lintel and projecting sill with small-paned glazing with smaller window above. Rear: chamfered cross-window to left of 2 sash windows with lintels and projecting sills. Left-hand return, gable-on to the Common, has large 20-pane sash window with raised plain-stone surrounds.
Interior: altered to form dwelling. One pane of glass scratched "Mary Wynn 1751". Three king-post trusses with angle-struts.
Lady Bolles of Heath Old Hall endowed the foundation with £25.12.6 annually for a schoolmaster and usher at 'lately built school in Heath'.
Listing NGR: SE3579520038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342379
- 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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