Thomlinson Junior School
THOMLINSON JUNIOR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212899
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Thomlinson Junior School
- Statutory Address:
- THOMLINSON JUNIOR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212899
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Thomlinson Junior School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THOMLINSON JUNIOR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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:
- THOMLINSON JUNIOR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 25550 48151
Details
NY 2548 WIGTON HIGH STREET (West side) Wigton 14/73 Thomlinson Junior School G.V. II
House called The Flosh, then Westmorland House, now school. Late C18 with extensive 1800-1807 alterations for and by John Westmorland and 1898 school extensions by Oliver and Dodgson (weathered inscription and date 1730 come from the earlier school on Market Hill). Flemish bond brickwork with V-jointed quoins on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with ashlar chimney stacks. Original house: 2 storeys, 5 bays with 3-bay extension to right under common roof. T-shaped school extension to extreme right is of red brick, 3 storeys. C20 door in prostyle Doric porch with triglyph and metope frieze under dentilled cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds. Tripartite window over entrance has been partly blocked. Extension has similar sash windows with flanking ground-floor lancets. School extension has C20 door in angle porch on single Ionic column. Casement windows in alternate block surrounds with keyed entablature. Hall has flat stone-mullioned windows with similar windows above, in round-headed surround under battlemented gable. See William Carrick, History of Wigton, 1949, pp263-4. Rear extensions are of no interest.
Listing NGR: NY2583848046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72027
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carrick, T W, History of Wigton, (1949), 263-4
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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