Old School House and Two Attached Cottages
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES, WAPLEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211433
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House and Two Attached Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES, WAPLEY HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16918/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211433
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House and Two Attached Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES, WAPLEY HILL
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 HOUSE AND TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES, WAPLEY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dodington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 71252 79750
Details
ST 77 NW DODINGTON C.P. WAPLEY HILL (east side)
5/79 Old School House and two attached cottages
- II
School, now disused, and 2 attached cottages. Late C17 cottages, mid C19 school, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Rubble, stone dressings, double Roman tiled roofs with brick and stone stacks. L-plan group, picturesque Gothic style school. Single storey school has south elevation with 2 windows, each in small gable with bargeboards, each of 2 lights with trefoil heads and chamfered stone surround, central broach stack, buttresses, string course below cills, projecting eaves, crestings; wooden gabled porch to right with pierced trefoils in gable, rubble plinth, plain door. Left return gable end of school has 4-light window with pointed arched heads, 3 multi-foil lights above, chamfered surround, buttresses, string course, bargeboards to gable. 1½ storey cottages to left have 5 windows at ground floor and one blocked to left, all C20 casements except to right a 3-light casement with ovolo mullions and hood mould, 2nd from right and 2nd from left formerly doors; 3 small gables with bargeboards, each with 2-light casement, to right with ovolo mullions and hood mould, 2 roof lights and 3 brick ridge stacks. East elevation of cottages has 3 windows at ground floor, to left of 2 lights with ovolo mullion and hood mould, 2 to right C20, doors 2nd from left and 2nd from right; 2 gables with bargeboards, larger to left with 2-light casement, ovolo mullion and hood mould, C20 2-light casement to right with chamfered timber lintel; wall set back to rear. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST7125279750
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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