Number 12 and the Old School
NUMBER 12 AND THE OLD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192519
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Number 12 and the Old School
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 12 AND THE OLD SCHOOL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192519
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Number 12 and the Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 12 AND THE OLD SCHOOL
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:
- NUMBER 12 AND THE OLD SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34965 02652
Details
WORSBROUGH WORSBROUGH VILLAGE SE30SW 1/111 No 12 and The Old School GV II House and attached school now church rooms. Late C16-C17 with later additions. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Irregular plan: 2-storey, 2-cell house with 4-bay wing to rear left (The Old School) having large Cl9 addition on its right return and smaller addition at rear-right corner. House: altered doorway to right of centre has 4-pane sash on its right and original 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window on left with similar window over. 16-pane sash above door with blocked, double-chamfered single-light opening on right. Shaped kneelers, cavetto-moulded gable copings. Rebuilt stone ridge stack and end stack on right. Rear (end of school-room wing): paired 4-pane sashes in original 3-light surround, 2-light double-chamfered window over. Shaped kneelers and gable copings. 1-storey wing on left has panelled door to right of paired 4-pane sashes, left end stack. C19 addition set back on left has renewed casements and gable copings on left. Left return of house: original doorway on left with chamfered quoins and cambered lintel now forms window. 4-light double- chamfered mullioned window with dripstone on right has central mullion removed, similar intact window above. Attached on left is The Old School: 4 large, transomed casements with glazing bars in chamfered surrounds, chamfered doorway between bays 3 and 4.
Interior: ground-floor room on left has ashlar fireplace, similar lst-floor fireplace backing onto it is now exposed on stairs. Ground-floor room on right has scratch-moulded bressumer beam. Parts of the school may date back to 1560 when court rolls record that "William Elmehyrste and William Broddesworth" were allowed to build a grammar school on waste ground near the church (Wright p12).
J. G. Wright, Worsbrough: In Times Past, 1983.
Listing NGR: SE3496802654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wright, J G, Worsbrough in Times Past, (1983), 12
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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