JOHN BRABIN'S OLD SCHOOL

JOHN BRABIN'S OLD SCHOOL, 27, WINDY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147304
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:: JOHN BRABIN'S OLD SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: JOHN BRABIN'S OLD SCHOOL, 27, WINDY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147304
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: JOHN BRABIN'S OLD SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: JOHN BRABIN'S OLD SCHOOL, 27, WINDY STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: JOHN BRABIN'S OLD SCHOOL, 27, WINDY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Chipping
National Grid Reference:: SD 62308 43228

Details

SD 64 SW CHIPPING WINDY STREET

4/92 No. 27 (John Brabin's Old School) 29.12.52 (formerly listed as John Brabin's Old School) GV II

Former school, 1684, altered. Sandstone rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys, the upper one now being very tall. 3 bays with central single-storey porch, continuous drip course which returns along right-hand gable wall, and cavetto-moulded eaves cornice. On the ground floor are 2 3-light double- chamfered mullioned windows, the inner chamfer being hollow. The 1st floor windows have chamfered plain stone surrounds. The porch has an ashlar front, saddle-backed coping with 3 ball finials, a studded plank door and a badly worn moulded door surround with shaped lintel and moulded hood. Re-cut on the lintel are: 'CP RP 1684 JH RM'. Above is a re-cut plaque with moulded border 'THIS SCHOOL FOUNDED BY JOHN BRABBIN GENTLEMAN DOCE DISCE VEL DISCEDE'. The left-hand gable has a plain stone door surround with 'GIRLS' on the lintel. The right-hand gable has a 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window on the ground floor. At the rear (north-west) are extensions with an M-roof. The wall facing the river is of 2 storeys and 3 bays, the windows having plain stone surrounds. The wall facing the road has 4 narrow doorways with slightly chamfered surrounds, now blocked to form windows. The right-hand one has '1771' incised on the lintel. Above are lst and 2nd floor windows with plain stone surrounds, and a cavetto cornice.

Listing NGR: SD6230843228

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Legacy System number:: 182979
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.