The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167831
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167831
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Overbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95878 37269
Details
OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/116 The Old School House GV II
Schoolmaster's house, now house. 1908 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; limestone tiled roof in diminishing courses, gable-end parapets with ball finials and large ashlar ridge stacks, stack to west of centre has two shafts and east end stack has three shafts, both stacks have continuous moulded cappings. Roughly T-plan; main range aligned east/west and of three bays; east end bay has gabled pro- jections to north and south, their roof ridges slightly lower in height than main part. Single storey and attic with dormers. North front elevation: windows are all leaded casements; main part has a single-light ground floor window to the western end, a central gabled dormer which has a 2-light chamfered mullioned window. Both windows have dripstones. Beneath the dormer is the main entrance which has a round-headed doorway with a square head and moulded architrave and flanking rectangular lights; the doorway has a hoodmould and returns which continue above the lights. The projecting gable end to the east has a ground and attic floor 3-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould. There is a similar attic light in the west gable end. A hipped- roofed single-storey, single-bay wash-house adjoins the east gable end. The building appears to have been little altered since it was built and is an interesting example of Newton designing in a Neo-Shaw style so as to be in keeping with the school and other adjoining Shaw buildings. (Newton, W G: The Life and Work of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).
Listing NGR: SO9587837269
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148569
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)
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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