Former Free School
FORMER FREE SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176907
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Former Free School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER FREE SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176907
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former Free School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER FREE SCHOOL
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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:
- FORMER FREE SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cardington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 50651 95122
Details
SO 5095-5195 CARDINGTON C.P. CARDINGTON 12/17 Former Free School 13.6.58 (formerly listed as Old Free School)
GV II
School, now part of larger house. Circa 1720. Red brick with grey sandstone dressings, including dressed sandstone plinth with coursed brown sandstone rubble foundations exposed to south-east; plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Tall chamfered plinth, stone plat band, and parapeted gable ends with chamfered stone copings and shaped kneelers; integral brick lateral stack to south-east. North-west (churchyard) front: 3-windows; first-floor 2-light leaded wooden casements, and ground- floor leaded wooden cross-windows with stone lintels (blocked with brick up to transom level); probably later blocked doorway to left (see straight joints) with small inserted casement; stone plaque above central ground-floor window inscribed:"FREE SCHOOL". South-east front: 2 first-floor 2-light leaded wooden casements to left and one single- light leaded casement to right; 2 ground-floor leaded wooden cross- windows to left with stone lintels. South-west gable end has first- floor wooden cross-window (C20 replacement - see cill) with brick band above and ground-floor boarded door (lowered at some time - see blocked opening above with lintel). Interior not inspected. The school was first endowed by William Hall in 1720 and again by John Russel in 1813. The former Free School now forms part of a larger house with No. 19 (q.v.) adjoining to north-east. Kelly's Directory of Shropshire (1885), p.819.
Listing NGR: SO5065395123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Shropshire, (1885), 819
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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