Old School Room
OLD SCHOOL ROOM, CHEW STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135935
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Room
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL ROOM, CHEW STREET
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-09-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/00091/01
- Rights:
- © Mr Charles Hallsworth. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135935
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL ROOM, CHEW 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:
- OLD SCHOOL ROOM, CHEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chew Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57673 63160
Details
ST 56 SE CHEW MAGNA C.P. CHEW STREET (north side)
3/23 Old School Room (formerly The 21.9.60 Church House)
II*
Church house, now in public use, formerly used as school. c1510, with later alterations. Coursed sandstone rubble, limestone dressings and long and short quoins, double Roman tiled roof with raised coped verges and kneelers. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys, west front has gable end, central moulded 4-centred arched door opening, C19 door with raised fillets, ogee hood mould with finial, one window each side of door and 3 above, all 2-light leaded casements with moulded stone mullions and hood moulds, 4-centred arched heads except central upper window which has cusped lights, carved shield of arms over door, glazed single lancet in gable with small carved figure above (St. George and the dragon). North elevation has external stair supported by 2 octagonal piers and end rubble wall, leading to 2 chamfered 4-centred arched door openings at upper level, 3 similar door openings to ground floor, blocked to right; 4 windows per floor, similar stone mullioned casements, alternate windows having 4-centred and cusped lights, one bay to right of stair, 3 to left, coved eaves cornice, pair of polygonal stone stacks rising from eaves. South elevation has 2 blocked doors to left and two 2-light 4-centred arched windows to right, first floor has two 2-light windows to left with 4-centred arched heads, 3-light window, two 2-light and one 3-light to right, 3-light windows being wooden replacements, stack rising from eaves to left. Rear has large cusped C19 window in gable end lighting former school-room, very large quoin blocks. Interior: ground floor has possible quoin stones in south wall, only visible on interior, timber lintels remaining north and south from former door openings, very large lintel across whole east wall with stone jambs for fireplace, possible smoke chamber above. At first floor, fine 11-bay roof with principal rafters, arched braces, cambered collars, 2 rows of purlins and ridge purlin, curved windbraces in lower tier, cornice joining arched- braces, collars tenoned into arched-braces. (Sources: Pevsner, N. : Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol. 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5768063169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 12-Jun-2026 at 17:22:05.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.