The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, DERBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204445
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, DERBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204445
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, DERBY ROAD
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, DERBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Risley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 46168 35714
Details
PARISH OF RISLEY DERBY ROAD
SK 46 NE
2/95 (North Side)
The Old School
2.9.52 House
GV II*
School house, now house. c1720 with later C18 alterations.
Endowed by Elizabeth Grey of Risley Hall in her will of 1720.
Red brick in flemish bond with yellow brick headers and gauged
brick dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with moulded
stone copings on plain brick kneelers and large gable brick
stacks. Double plain first and second floor bands with
vitrified headers and a stepped and dentilled brick cornice.
Two storeys plus garrets and five bays. T-plan. Central raised
doorcase with wide plain surround, chamfered to inner edge and
double raised and fielded panelled doors. Above a shell canopy,
on straight brackets, which cuts through the first floor band.
To either side are single, late C18 glazing bar sashes under
flat arches, set in disturbed brickwork. Above there are five
2-light timber cross windows with leaded casements, again under
flat arches. Similar windows to gable walls and rear wing.
Interior has the original dogleg column on vase baluster
staircase with moulded handrail through two floors. It also has
all the original raised and fielded six panelled doors, central
ovolo moulded beams to each room, a richly moulded original
fireplace in the upper east room and original cornicing in the
lower east room. This house was built as part of the Latin
school complex and it appears on a map of 1722 which is housed
at Derbyshire County Record Office, although the Derbyshire
Victoria County History states that it was built in 1771. It is
possible that this is the date of the alterations.
Listing NGR: SK4616835714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82281
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Derby, (1905)
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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