Hensall Primary School Schoolmaster's House
HENSALL PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148400
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hensall Primary School Schoolmaster's House
- Statutory Address:
- HENSALL PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148400
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hensall Primary School Schoolmaster's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENSALL PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- HENSALL PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hensall
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 58279 22552
Details
HENSALL CHURCH LANE SE 52 SE (west side)
3/3 Hensall Primary School and Schoolmaster's house (formerly listed as The 11.12.67 School)
GV II School and schoolmaster's house. 1854 with later additions and alterations including those of 1893, 1968 and 1970. Architect, William Butterfield; patron, 7th Viscount Downe; builder, Charles Ward of Lincoln. Pinkish-red brick, partly rendered, with grey slate roof. 2-storey range with 2 first- floor windows with single tall storey, 2-bay schoolroom adjoining. Aesthetic Functionalism. Main range: ground floor obscured by C20 additions, entrance to C20 porch, double, part-glazed doors, 9-pane window. First floor has 2-light timber mullion window with 4-pane sashes and tripartite window with 2-pane sash to centre, both in long raking dormer. Schoolroom has three 6-pane casement windows with 2 roof dormers. External end stack and large stepped external stack to front elevation. 2 rainwater heads bearing initial D. Sweeping roof in 2 levels. Interior retains many original features including fireplaces, cupboards with hinges, dado rails, 6 and 8-panel doors and dogleg staircase to master's house with plain balusters. Conceived as a group with St Paul's Church (qv) and The Red House (qv) and with similar groups at Cowick and Pollington. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 262. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971, p 436.
Listing NGR: SE5827922552
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326476
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 436
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 262
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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