School
SCHOOL, DINGLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- School
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL, DINGLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL, DINGLEY ROAD
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:
- SCHOOL, DINGLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bowden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 74676 88860
Details
DINGLEY ROAD 1. 5303 (North Side) Great Bowden School SP 7488 5/153 II GV
2. 1839. Tudor Gothic style. Red briok with stone dressings. 2 storey pedimented end facade faces street. 3 windows with stone labels, wooden mullions, transoms and glazing bars. Plaque inscribed "National School built by Public Subscriptions and Opened December 2nd 1839". Originally 2 rooms with centre house and rooms for schoolmaster. 1870 interior plan probably altered to incorporate the centre part as a schoolroom. Front ground floor extension with original front door reset. Penthouse roof above. Eastern and western pedimented single storey wings, the eastern one advanced, western recessed. Ref. Seaborne.
Listing NGR: SP7467688860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189636
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Seaborne, M, The English School: Its Architecture and Organization 1370-1870, (1971)
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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