THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE VILLAGE HALL

THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191789
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE VILLAGE HALL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191789
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-May-1986
List Entry Name:: THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE VILLAGE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 2:: VILLAGE HALL, MAIN STREET

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 SCHOOL HOUSE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:: VILLAGE HALL, MAIN STREET

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sywell
National Grid Reference:: SP8216967256

Details

SYWELL MAIN STREET SP8267 (South side) 15/301 The Old School House and 02/08/72 Village Hall (Formerly listed as The Village School, Masters House)

GV II

School and masters house, now village hall and house. Dated 1860-64 for Lady Overstone. Rusticated lias with ashlar dressings and plain-tile roof with fishscale banding. T-shape plan. Masters house of 2 storeys, school is single storey. Elevation to road: Masters house to right has projecting gable of one-window range of wood-mullioned windows with ashlar surrounds. School to left, 3-window range of single-light casements with cast-iron lozenge glazing bars with ashlar surround all under open loggia with triple arcade of octagonal wooden columns. 2 large ashlar gabled dormers above, with triple lancet windows. Gabled porch to right of centre has C19 plank door with moulded stone surround and 4-centred arch head and single-light window to left and slit window above, both with ashlar surrounds. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Lateral stone stacks and bellcote with spirelet at ridge. East gable of school has 4-light window with intersecting tracery and slit window in apex. Masters house has gabled porch to right. Tablet to right under loggia has inscription. "This school house was erected under the care, and at the expense of the good Lady Overstone by whom also the village of Sywell was rebuilt AD 1860-64". Similar tablet to left under loggia has inscription to Thomas Arthur Dickson, former school manager, and is dated 1927. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP8217067254

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Legacy System number:: 233586
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.