Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, TOCKWITH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150362
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, TOCKWITH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150362
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, TOCKWITH 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:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, TOCKWITH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 47125 50730
Details
SE 45 SE BILTON IN AINSTY TOCKWITH LANE (east side)
4/8 Old School House
- II
School, now private house. Early C19. For Hall Plumer. Red-brown brick, Flemish bond, graduated grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays, the pedimented central 2 bays project. Central 6-panel door with overlight. Blocked doorway now a window far right. 12-pane sashes flank the door, the remainder are smaller and of 16 panes and all have segmental stretcher arches and stone sills. Modillioned eaves cornice and pediment. A stone plaque between the central first-floor windows has no inscription; a blind oculus in the pediment has an inscription (restored): "Ex dono / H. PLUMER Armi(ger) / Anno Domini / 1801". End brick stacks. A late C19 single- storey schoolroom with stone-mullioned windows projects to right. Left return (to road): a round-arched recess with keystone, right, has a blocked doorway; 2 round-arched windows with stone sills and C20 small-paned sashes to first floor; blocked oculus to gable. Rear range not of special interest. The school was endowed by Hall Plumer of Bilton Hall (qv) and served Bilton, Bickerton and Tockwith. It was closed in 1928 and was used as a village hall until 1973 when the chuch sold it and it was converted into a private house. W V Crapp, Some historical notes on the Parish and Parish Church of St Helen's, Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton, 1973, p6.
Listing NGR: SE4712550730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331709
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Crapp, WV , Some Historical Notes on the Parish and Parish Church of St Helens Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton, 1973,
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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