Former National School
FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245692
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former National School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245692
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former National School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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:
- FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenilworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28792 72302
Details
SP 2872 SE KENILWORTH SCHOOL LANE
586/6/10006 Former National School
GV II
National school, now theatre wardrobe. Dated 1836. Flemish bond red brick. Welsh slate roof with pedimental gable ends. Truncated brick stack at NW gable end and later lateral stack on rear NE. PLAN: Rectangular on plan, with schoolrooms on ground and first floors. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay SW front with large cambered arch windows, with multi-pane cast-iron frames with pivot opening lights at centre; ground floor windows replaced with wooden mullion-transom frames in circa late C19; doorway on right with overlight and panelled door, and C20 brick porch on left with flat roof. Similar cast-iron window on SE end with large sandstone plaque in gable above, inscribed: NATIONAL SCHOOL. Erected by Voluntary Contributions, AD 1836, S. Butler DD vicar, T. Tidmarsh, R. Draper churchwardens'. Sash windows with glazing bars on NW end and at rear NE, and another multi-pane cast-iron window on first floor at rear NE. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SP2879272302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471629
- 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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