1-6, The Old School Close
1-6, The Old School Close, Tideswell, Buxton, SK17 8NG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215823
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 1-6, The Old School Close
- Statutory Address:
- 1-6, The Old School Close, Tideswell, Buxton, SK17 8NG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215823
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 1-6, The Old School Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-6, The Old School Close, Tideswell, Buxton, SK17 8NG
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:
- 1-6, The Old School Close, Tideswell, Buxton, SK17 8NG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tideswell
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 15313 75875
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 May 2023 to update the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
SK 1575
7/29
PARISH OF TIDESWELL
THE OLD SCHOOL CLOSE
1-6 (Consec)
(Formerly listed as Premises occupied by High Peak Plastics Ltd, ST JOHNS ROAD)
II
Former Church of England school, factory.(at time of listing) now converted into residential use. Late C19. Coursed squared rubble limestone with gritstone dressings. Flush quoins, coped gables, moulded kneelers, ashlar stacks with moulded caps and Welsh slated roofs. Irregular plan. South east elevation. Main range of ten bays, with entrance porch and lower two bay range with canted wall at south west end. Single storey, but with taller gabled windows and gabled ranges within the elevation, all rising from a chamfered plinth. Gabled range to north east end, with tall square headed mullioned and transomed windows, and a pointed arched traceried light above, beneath a hoodmould with carved stops. The next four bays have stepped buttresses, and two-light windows with mullions and ogee heads, those to the two centre bays with taller mullioned and transomed lights beneath gabled dormers. Advanced gabled central range with projecting single storey gabled porch, flanked by taller two-light ogee headed mullioned windows beneath flat hoodmoulds with stops. Traceried pointed arched opening within gable apex, and above a gabled bellcote. Remaining three bays with ogee headed two-light mullioned windows with buttresses between. Window sills and buttresses linked by continuous moulded stringcourse. Set back at south west end, a lower entrance porch with arched head to doorway, beneath a stilted hoodmould linked to a stringcourse. To the rear, a two bay extension with canted south west end.
Listing NGR: SK1531375875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400362
- 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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