Old School and Railings
OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS, SWINE MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179279
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Old School and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS, SWINE MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179279
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old School and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS, SWINE MARKET
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 AND RAILINGS, SWINE MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 12608 87711
Details
SE 18 NW
9/82
14.2.79
MIDDLEHAM
SWINE MARKET
(north side)
Old School and railings
(Formerly listed as The Old Church School
GV
II
National School and railings. Dated 1869. Rubble, Welsh slate roof.
2-storey school with 4-stage tower porch, 3:1:3 bays. Hammer-faced quoins.
School; ground floor: C20 casement windows. First floor: pointed-arched
windows, single lancets flanking central 3-light windows with tracery below
quoined gables containing blank loop-holes. Kneelers, ashlar copings, end
stacks. Tower: single lancets to first and second stages; on fourth a blank
loop-hole; on second a plaque describing the building of the school as a
memorial to Rev J A Birch, late Rector of Middleham. Entrance on right
return of tower, a board door in ashlar surround on plinths with cornice
capitals and 4-centred arch head. Railings in front of school to right of
tower: ashlar plinth supporting cast-iron railings with spear finials, urn
finials to standards, ashlar gate-piers.
Listing NGR: SE1260887711
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321693
- 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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