Old School House

OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 16, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187959
Date first listed:
24-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
Old School House
Statutory Address:
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 16, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187959
Date first listed:
24-Sept-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
Old School House
Statutory Address 1:
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 16, CHURCH STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 16, CHURCH STREET

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:
Harlaxton
National Grid Reference:
SK 88314 32602

Details

HARLAXTON SK8832 CHURCH STREET 1315-0/14/142 (West side (off)) 24/09/79 No.16 Old School House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Chimo Cottage, Old School and the Old School House) GV II

School and school house, now a house. Mid C19, probably incorporating fragments of an earlier building, with late C20 alterations. Ground floor red brick and coursed squared stone, with sham timber framing and rendered nogging above. Pantile and slate roofs with a brick ridge stack with carved brick coped flue, and various other stacks with coped terracotta flues. Tudor Revival style. 2 storeys; 5 bays. L-plan. Windows are mainly C20 glazing bar casements. To left, an open timber framed gallery with splat balustrade, and below it, a 2-light casement and a wood cased lead water pump. To left, a square external stack with stone base and ashlar flue. To right, a square external brick stack, flanked by 2 casements, the largest to the left. Below, flanking the stack, small single windows witch diamond pane glazing, then C20 2-light casements. Beyond, to left, a plank door with ornamental hinges, and to right, another diamond paned window. Left gable has a C20 to casement and is topped with a gabled square wooden bellcote. At the rear, a square external brick stack with double,flues. Rear wing has a smaller side wall stack. This building is one of those remodelled c1820-1840 by Gregory Gregory, Lord of the Manor of Harlaxton, following the precepts of JC Loudon. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 361-362; Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).

Listing NGR: SK8831432602

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Legacy System number:
382948
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 361-362
Rowlands, G, Harlaxton Manor, (1984), 20-29

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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.

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