Eccleston Old School
ECCLESTON OLD SCHOOL, TOWNGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164071
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eccleston Old School
- Statutory Address:
- ECCLESTON OLD SCHOOL, TOWNGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164071
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eccleston Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ECCLESTON OLD SCHOOL, TOWNGATE
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:
- ECCLESTON OLD SCHOOL, TOWNGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51866 17264
Details
ECCLESTON TOWNGATE SD 51 NW 9/106 Eccleston Old School - GV II
School, now parish hall. Dated 1814 at 1st floor. Coursed squared sandstone, low-pitched hipped slate roof with no chimney. Small rectangular 2-storey building, with dressed quoins and primitive Gothic openings: at left end a pointed arch doorway with plain surround, above the door a squat window of similar shape with square casements in the lower part and Y-tracery in the head; to the right, 2 similar windows on each floor, those at ground floor slightly higher; all these windows have vertical bars in front of the opening part of the casement. Between the 2nd and 3rd windows at 1st floor is a large plaque inscribed:
For the Encouragement of useful Learning And For The Promotion of true Religion This BUILDING was erected By Public SUBSCRIPTION An:Dom: 1814
Item forms group with No.119 (Bank House) (q.v.) immediately north.
Listing NGR: SD5186617264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184358
- 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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