THE OLD CHURCH SCHOOL

THE OLD CHURCH SCHOOL, 1-4, BLIND LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185912
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1980
List Entry Name:: THE OLD CHURCH SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD CHURCH SCHOOL, 1-4, BLIND LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185912
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1980
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: THE OLD CHURCH SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD CHURCH SCHOOL, 1-4, BLIND LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD CHURCH SCHOOL, 1-4, BLIND LANE

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

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hurworth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 30389 10179

Details

HURWORTH BLIND LANE NZ 3010 (East side)

17/68 The Old Church 5/12/80 School (Nos.1 to 4 consecutive) (previously listed as Old Church School)

II

Former church school converted into 4 dwellings c.1983. 1831; section at right added 1877. Tooled dressed sandstone; Welsh slate roof with stone chimney stacks. Tudor style. One and 2 storeys, 8 bays in all, the fourth bay projecting and 2-storeyed, the rest one storey. Continuous plinth. Doors in second and fifth bays under hoodmoulds; large projecting chimney breast at right of the latter and door with 4-centred head in right return of projecting bay. Mainly double-chamfered, stone-mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights under hoodmoulds; replaced casements. No. 1 at left has parapet which rises to form small gable above left window; canted left end corner surmounted by squat stack. Each section has a pitched roof with stone-coped gables. No. 3 has gabled bellcote with pointed openings. No. 1 has 2-bay left return with 2 lancets separated by a buttress supporting a squat octagonal bellcote with shouldered openings and a stone spirelet.

Listing NGR: NZ3038910179

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Legacy System number:: 350405
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.