The Old Grammar House
1, Dark Lane, Kinver, DY7 6JA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230951
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Grammar House
- Statutory Address:
- 1, Dark Lane, Kinver, DY7 6JA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230951
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Grammar House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, Dark Lane, Kinver, DY7 6JA
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, Dark Lane, Kinver, DY7 6JA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- South Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kinver
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84853 83174
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 April 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SO 8483-8583
15/75
KINVER C.P.
DARK LANE (north side)
No 1, The Old Grammar House
(formerly listed as Ye Olde Grammar School, DARK LANE, previously listed as Old Grammar School House)
16.6.53
GV
II
House. Late C16 incorporating some earlier fragments, with a major extension of the 1830s; restored in the 1970s. Timber framed with a brick extension rendered and lined as ashlar; plain tile roof, hipped to the right, and slate roofed extension; brick ridge stacks. C16 L-shaped plan; principal range aligned east-west facing south and rear wing to the west aligned north-south; 1830s wing to the east aligned north-south. C16 main house to the left, gabled 1830s wing to the right. Main house: two storeys and gable-lit attic with continuous first floor jetty and jettied attic gables; uninterrupted close studding to all floors. Two bays, C20 wood mullioned windows on cyma reversa brackets, small four-pane casements to first floor centre. Central four-panel door within original frame with gabled wrought iron porch, approached by a flight of brick steps; a curved tension brace extends from the right-hand side of the door frame to the sill beam. Extension wing: two storeys; one bay glazing bar sashes.
Listing NGR: SO8485383174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405980
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1984), 158-9
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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