Old Grammar School
Old Grammar School, St Nicholas' Place, Kings Norton, B38 8RU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211444
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- Old Grammar School, St Nicholas' Place, Kings Norton, B38 8RU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211444
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Grammar School, St Nicholas' Place, Kings Norton, B38 8RU
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 Grammar School, St Nicholas' Place, Kings Norton, B38 8RU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 04963 78997
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 04/06/2018
SP 0478 NE
58/2
Kings Norton
St Nicholas' Place
Old Grammar School
(Formerly listed as Old Grammar School on the north side of the churchyard to the Church of St Nicholas, THE GREEN)
25.4.52
II*
Probably built as the priest's house to St Nicholas's Church. Early C15 altered. Stone plinth; ground floor brick with stone quoins; first floor half-timbered.
Two storeys; three bays, the centre one advanced, gabled and containing the porch. Ground floor apparently underbuilt when the porch was added probably in the late C16. All windows mullioned, in stone on the ground floor and in wood on the first. On the right hand return, a window with rusticated tracery. To the left, a modern staircase of c1910. Inside, some simple C17 panelling and the roof of three trusses forming two centred arches.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The building, while empty, was the target of an unusual attack by suffragettes. The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), formed by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903, used militant methods including attacks on property its campaign to get the vote. This extended to arson, but as the target was property rather than people suffragettes only attacked empty buildings. In April 1913 two windows were forced open but no fire was set. A message on the blackboard read ‘Two Suffragists have entered here, but charmed with this old-world room, have refrained from their design of destruction.’
This list entry was amended in 2018 as part of the centenary commemorations of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
Listing NGR: SP0496278998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217166
- 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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