The Old School

THE OLD SCHOOL, HIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219339
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
The Old School
Statutory Address:
THE OLD SCHOOL, HIGH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219339
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
The Old School
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD SCHOOL, HIGH 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD SCHOOL, HIGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Soulbury
National Grid Reference:
SP 88271 27126

Details

SP 82 NE SOULBURY HIGH ROAD (east side)

3/55 The Old School

GV II

Former school. Circa 1870, probably by G.E. Street. Red brick with stripes and diapers of blue brick, and stone plinth moulding, sill course and windows. Buttresses, chimneys and bell-tower have sloping off-set stone sides. Tiled roof with ornamental bands of fishscale tiles and cusped bargeboards. L-plan with lobby and bell-tower in angle. One storey, 2 bays to road. Left bay is gabled and projecting with flanking buttresses and 3-light plate tracery window with incised floral decoration. Cusped roundel above at apex of gable, both windows with flanking stone impost bands and gauged brick surrounds. Gables of rear cross wing have similar treatment but each with a pair of 2-light windows. Right bay has chimney and lean-to lobby with quatrefoil window to left and bell-tower over arched door to right. Bell-tower has lancet window, stone broach to octagonal wooden bell-cote, and tall slated spirelet with cast iron finial.

Listing NGR: SP8827127126

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Legacy System number:
350794
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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