The Old School and Attached Boundary Wall
THE OLD SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233200
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, LOWER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233200
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, LOWER 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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, LOWER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Amber Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mackworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 31738 37705
Details
In the entry for
SK 33 NW MACKWORTH LOWER ROAD 1039- /6/10002 The Old School and attached boundary wall. II Former village school, now hall, and attached boundary wall. c.1860, by William Mundy. Red brick, laid to Flemish bond, with decorative blue brick banding, and stone dressings to window openings. Tiled roof covering with alternating bands of plain red and blue fish-scale tiles, and dentilled verges. Simple Gothic style. Asymmetrical plan, with tall principal range aligned east-west, lower hipped-roofed wing to front, and plain 'T' shape service range to rear, linked to enclosure wall. FRONT ELEVATION; tall 3-bay main range, rising from a shallow plinth. At either end, a gabled 2-light pointed arched window with stone cill, mullions and transoms, with cusped heads to lights and splayed head to mullion, giving a 'Y'-traceried effect. To the centre, a wider 3-light window, similarly detailed. Paired blue brick bands above cill level and at eaves level, a single band carried around pointed heads to windows. Left of centre, advanced hipped roofed wing with 2 flat-headed 2-light mullioned windows to hip wall, and opposed pointed arched doorways to front and rear walls. 3-light window to right(east) gable, 2-light window to left. REAR ELEVATION: Blind rear wall, with low 'T' plan service wing linking school and enclosure wall. INTERIOR; 2-bay part to right open to roof with exposed scissor-braced common rafter roof. Corbelled fireplace with sloping brick hood to front wall (external stack now removed). Internal partition wall with wide, shallow pointed arch, panelled partition incorporating double doors. Inserted C20 ceiling in single bay room beyond partition. Attached boundary wall, approx. 1 metre high with stone and blue clay copings. Square entrance gatepiers with gabled ashlar caps, and boarded gate. A near complete and unaltered example ofa mid-C19 school, characteristic, in terms of its design and in the accommodation provided, of educational provision at parish level throughout England between 1840 and the Elementary Education Act of 1870.
Listing NGR: SK3173837705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408656
- 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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