SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL

SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL, LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1183930
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL, LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1183930
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Sep-1976
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL, LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL, LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Rugby (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 50299 74950

Details

LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET 1. 5397 (South Side) School House at Rugby School (Formerly listed as Rugby Old School) SP 5074 NW 2/83 11.lO.49.

II* GV

2. 1809-13 by Henry Hakewell in Tudor style. Brown brick, stone dressings. Residence of many headmasters of the school, including Dr Arnold. Barry home of Matthew Arnold. Irregular L plan with octagonal tower above entrance arch in angle. Wide stone steps up to recessed porch flanked by buttresses. Windows mainly sashes. Battlemented parapet. 2 and 3 storeys. Graded partly for historical interest.

New and old Quad Buildings, School House and Doctor's Wall at Rugby School form a] group with the Chapel and War Memorial Chapel at Rugby School Dunchurch Road.

Listing NGR: SP5026174962

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Legacy System number:: 308482
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.