Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, BARGATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177253
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, BARGATES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177253
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, BARGATES
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, BARGATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Urban
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54052 41756
Details
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. BARGATES (north-east SJ 5441 SJ 54050 41756 side) 8/33 No. 13 (Old School House) 1.5.51 [Formerly listed as Grammar School (detached house adjoining Higginson's Almshouses)] GV II*
Schoolhouse, now disused. Dated 1708. Red brick with painted grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. One storey and attic. Plinth with moulded stone top, chamfered stone quoins, wooden modillion eaves cornice, and parapeted gable ends with shaped stone kneelers and stone coping. Integral brick end stacks, that to left consisting of 3 square shafts with chamfered corners and stone base and cap. Pair of dormers with 2-light wooden casements, wooden cills on small wooden brackets and steep triangular- pedimented gables with dentils. 2:1:2 bays; central quoined break has steep triangular pediment with dentils. Wooden cross windows with moulded stone cills and gauged-brick heads with raised keystones. Central mid-C19 half- glazed 4-panelled door with bolection moulded stone architrave and early C19 returned hoodmould. Moulded stone tablet above door, inscribed: "SCHOOL / FOUNDED BY / JANE HIGGINSON / MDCCVIII". Gabled rear wing: 2-light wooden attic casement and 2 ground-floor wooden cross windows with segmental relieving arches. Interior:; c.1708 dog-leg oak staircase with closed string, splat balusters, moulded handrail, and square newel posts with moulded caps. C18 boarded door beneath stairs with H-L hinges. Whitchurch grammar school was founded in 1548 by the Rev. John Talbot (opened 1550). This building dates from 1708 and was latterly used as the infants school. Further buildings (q.v.) were added to the east in 1848 and 1926, but the school has since amalgamated and moved to another site. B.O.E., p. 314; R.B. James, Whitchurch - A Short History (1979), p. 9.
Listing NGR: SJ5405141757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260585
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
James, R B, Whitchurch A Short History, (1979), 9
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 314
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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