North Molton County Primary School
NORTH MOLTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214465
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- North Molton County Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH MOLTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214465
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- North Molton County Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH MOLTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, THE SQUARE
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:
- NORTH MOLTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73695 29898
Details
NORTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (north side), SS 7229-7329 18/191 North Molton County Primary School 20.2.67 (formerly listed as Primary School) GV II School. Circa 1850. Snecked dressed sandstone with painted ashlar dressings. Rendered to rear. Hipped scantle-slate roof. Plan: Asymmetrical T-plan. Main range aligned approximately north-south, facing west, and wing to rear with opposed entrances. Tudor-Gothic style. Two storeys. Exterior: Symmetrical 4-window front to west; mullioned stone windows of 3 trefoil- headed lights under square head with returned hoodmoulds and flat stone-arched heads. Left-hand ground-floor window with C20 concrete lintel. Chamfered segmental-pointed arched doorway to right with trefoil-panelled spandrels, returned hoodmould and flat stone-arched head. Boarded door with wooden tympanum above, approached by 5 steps with low flanking dressed-stone walls. Blocked doorways between second and third and third and fourth windows from left (see later masonry and former flat stone-arched heads). Left and right-hand ends to main range have mullioned stone windows to each floor, each of 3 trefoil-headed lights with returned hoodmoulds and flat stone-arched heads. Opposed boarded doors to rear wing, that to south with 4-part rectangular overlight. Interior not inspected. Old postcards show the school with diamond-leaded lights, now replaced by C20 metal centre-hung casements.
Listing NGR: SS7369129896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399130
- 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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