Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CASTLE GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191161
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CASTLE GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191161
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CASTLE GATE
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:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, CASTLE GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 07399 42325
Details
The list entry for the following:- HIGH STREET SK 0642 - 0742 (north west side)
13/35 Alton National School - GV II
Shall be amended to read as follows:- SK 0642 - 0742 CASTLE GATE 13/35 The Old School House GV II
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ALTON C.P. HIGH STREET (North-west-side) SK 0642-0742 13/35 Alton National School GV II Former school, now house. Dated "Alton National School / A.D. / 1845". Red brick with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof with shaped tile bands; brick integral end stack. Aligned north-west/south-east facing south-west. 2 storeys with first floor band; 1:1:1 bays, central gabled porch with small fixed light window to ground floor, datestone to first floor with a square panel over containing a heraldic shield, slim rectangular loop above chamfer mullioned windows to left and right which are of 3 lights containing small-pane fixed light windows in chamfered and rebated surrounds. The right-hand return of the central porch has a Tudor arch door. Alton National School occupies a prominent position at the south- east corner of the churchyard of the Church of St. Peter (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SK0739942325
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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