Sound County Primary School
SOUND COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, WHITCHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135910
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sound County Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- SOUND COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, WHITCHURCH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06699/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135910
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sound County Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUND COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, WHITCHURCH 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:
- SOUND COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, WHITCHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sound
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 62875 48249
Details
SJ 64 NW SOUND C.P. WHITCHURCH ROAD
6/41 Sound County Primary School.
II
Village school and schoolmaster's house, 1876 (school records) with later alterations. Red and blue bricks with blue tile roof. 3-bay single storey, 1-bay 2-storey, linked gabled schoolmaster's house. Projecting plinth with blue-brick weathered top course. School entrance has boarded door with strap hinges and shouldered lintel with small rectangular light above, under a lean-to roof. The flanking porch walls have blue brick offsets. Stepped, 3-light mullion and transome windows, with metal lights and Gothic heads in gabled half dormers with terra-cotta finials. Weathered sill band. Bell-turret, astride ridge, has base clad in small slates, a steep pyramid roof of cedar shingles and weather vane. Diagonally set square mid-slope stack over front entrance. The Headmaster's House has ovolo moulded terra-cotta mullion windows with metal casements, a blue-brick weathered first floor band and a stepped gable feature below the verge. Unperforated crested ridge tiles. Interior: The school is mainly modernised but there are arch braced roof trusses.
Listing NGR: SJ6287548249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56911
- 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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