The School House Ye Olde School
THE SCHOOL HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185441
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The School House Ye Olde School
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00540/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185441
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The School House Ye Olde School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- YE OLDE SCHOOL, THE SQUARE
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:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE SCHOOL, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4855571244
Details
DUNCHURCH THE SQUARE
SP4871 (North side)
11/52 The School House and Ye Olde
06/10/60 School
(Formerly listed as Ye Olde
School)
GV II
House, now 2; formerly a church school. 1707. Considerably altered C19 and C20.
Designed and built by Smith of Warwick at the expense of Francis Boughton.
Flemish bond brick with stone string course and rusticated quoins to centre and
angles. Tile hipped roof; brick ridge stacks. U-plan with wings to rear. 2
storeys and attic; originally 2:3:2 bays, now 4-window range. Shallow projecting
centre has entrance to The School House in third bay. Fielded 6-panelled door
and overlight in moulded wood surround. Ground floor of centre and right part
has altered brickwork and a 16-pane sash with moulded frame and gauged brick
flat arches inserted between 2 bays. First floor has most openings bricked up.
Centre has central sash, with remains of a stone panel and volutes below. Right
part has sash to right. Gauged brick flat arches with keystones. Left part forms
Ye Olde School. Entrance in small one-bay addition has C20 ribbed Tudor arched
door and overlight, with 2-light C20 casement above. 4-light C20 wood mullioned
and transomed windows. 4-bay right return side has openings with brick segmental
arches, mostly blocked. 16-pane sash inserted between first 2 bays on ground
floor. Third and fourth bays on first floor have sashes. To rear: gabled wings
have C19/C20) range between. Interior not inspected.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.VI, p.79; Douglas Hickman: Warwickshire, (Shell
Guide), p.95).
Listing NGR: SP4855571244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 79
Hickman, D, Shell Guide in Warwickshire, (), 95
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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