Wagstaffe School House
WAGSTAFFE SCHOOL HOUSE, CROWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184894
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wagstaffe School House
- Statutory Address:
- WAGSTAFFE SCHOOL HOUSE, CROWN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184894
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wagstaffe School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAGSTAFFE SCHOOL HOUSE, CROWN STREET
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:
- WAGSTAFFE SCHOOL HOUSE, CROWN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37479 60026
Details
HARBURY CROWN STREET SP3760 (West side) 11/85 Wagstaffe School House 30/05/67 (Formerly listed as Wagstaffe School) GV II
School, now house. Founded 1611 by Thomas Wagstaffe. Restored 1866; converted late C20. Regular coursed limestone with plinth and sandstone dressings. Old tile roof has coped gable parapets with weatherings and ball finials; brick lateral stack to left return side and end stack to rear. T-plan, with cross wing on left. 2 storeys, with roof later converted to attic; 3-window range. Entrance in cross wing has C20 panelled double-leaf doors, in moulded straight-headed 4-centred doorway with moulded spandrels and hood mould. Recessed chamfered stone mullioned windows throughout, mostly with hood moulds. Cross wing has 4-light ground floor and two 3-light first floor windows. Datestone with long inscription in moulded frame between first floor windows. Right return side has small 3-light first floor window. Main range has 5-light windows, 2 on ground floor and one to left on first floor. Left return side has 5-light window, and 3-light and one-light first floor windows. Right return side has large 5-light window with transom. Rear has three 4-light ground floor windows; the right window is considerably longer. First floor has 3- and 4-light windows. Interior: wide basket-arched doorway. Former schoolroom has chamfered stone Tudor-arched fireplace, Stepped-stop moulded ceiling beam. Heavy panelled wooden screen has 6-panel door, with another door inserted, and turned balusters, First floor has plank doors with strap hinges. First floor room has smaller chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace. The inscription reads: Founded by Thos. Wagstaffe, Gent. 1611. Estab'd by Decree in Chauncery (Butler versus Wagstaffe) 1637. Confirmed by order of ye same Court (Attorney Gen. versus Barber) 1759. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.6, p.103; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.307; Harbury Society: 'Hungry Harbury', pp.7 and 55).
Listing NGR: SP3747960026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 307081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 103
Harbury Society, , Hungry Harbury, (), 7 55
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 307
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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