Old Travis Charity School
OLD TRAVIS CHARITY SCHOOL, CUCKOO LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192369
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Travis Charity School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TRAVIS CHARITY SCHOOL, CUCKOO LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192369
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Travis Charity School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TRAVIS CHARITY SCHOOL, CUCKOO LANE
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 TRAVIS CHARITY SCHOOL, CUCKOO LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SE6624509673
Details
SE 6609
(SE 60 NE)
16/33
HATFIELD
CUCKOO LANE
(west side)
Old Travis Charity School
II
Charity school disused at time of resurvey. 1682; re-roofed, altered and
extended 1880. Red brick, the old dark cement-rendered, the C19 work in
English bond, Welsh slate roof. Single storey, L-shaped plan with porch in
front angle. C17 range across rear has dripcourse and scrolled kneelers to
gable copings on left end; added C19 porch on right incorporates lintel and
pediment of a C17 doorway with shield in tympanum and initialled datestone
inscribed '1682/JC' at apex, over it a coped brick gable with datestone
marked 1880; boarded window on right of door; tall C19 brick stack at eaves
to rear of porch; ridge ventilators. C19 wing projection on right has 2 tall
windows (boarded at time of resurvey) beneath gable with re-set C17 kneelers
and copings; tall brick stack on left return. Rear: C17 range shows some
exposed brickwork with dripcourse cut by three C19 windows. Left return of
C17 range has continued dripcourse. No interior features of note visible at
time of resurvey. Built as a free school by John Hatfield who left it in
trust in an indenture of 1716. Taken over by the Travis Charity (est. 1710)
in 1848 then handed over to the Charity Commissioners in 1877 who improved
and enlarged the building at a cost of £400 to serve 60 children (Kelly's
Directory, p451). C19 work not of special interest except in that it is
integral and incorporates C17 elements.
Kelly's Directory, West Riding, 1889.
Listing NGR: SE6624509673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1889), 451
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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