Old School Cottage
OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209279
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209279
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, MAIN 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:
- OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rookley
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 50783 84174
Details
ROOKLEY
SZ58SW MAIN ROAD 1353-0/4/270 Old School Cottage
II
School house now house. Built c1846 by Mr John Woodnall. Isle of Wight coursed rubble with red brick dressings and slate roof. Cruciform shape. 1 storey and attics, 3 windows. Centre projecting gable with stone coping, kneelers and iron weathervan with clock below. Attic has 1 cambered 2 light casement with marginal glazing bars. Ground floor has central projecting wooden doorcase with open pediment, semi-circular fanlight engaged Tuscan columns and panelled reveals. Narrow side lights. Ends have 1 window, 2 light casement with marginal glazing bars to right and 3 light casement with marginal glazing bars to left. Left gable has Gothick glazed window. (V.C.H.: 140).
Listing NGR: SZ5078384174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 140
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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