School House
SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250448
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/00141/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250448
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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 HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morchard Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 77302 07557
Details
MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH STREET (north side) SS 7607 - 7707 11/139 Morchard Bishop - School House GV II
House, formerly schoolmasters house. Probably 1872. Snecked volcanic stone with Hamstone dressings; snecked volcanic stone stacks with brick chimney shafts; red tile roof with horizontal bands of fish-scale tiling and alternate plain and crested ridge tiles. Gothic-style L-shaped building with main range facing south and crosswing projecting forward from left (west) end. 3-room ground plan with axial stack between rooms in crosswing and end stack projecting from gable end of main block. 2-storeys. Walls are battered out slightly near the ground and a moulded Hamstone drip course just below first floor level rises over the ground floor windows as a continuous hoodmould. All the windows have depressed 2-centred arches over small shoulders, the ground foor arches higher than the first floor arches. The single ground floor windows of main front and gable end of crosswing are square- headed 3-light timber mullion-and-upper-transom windows with arch filled with rounded fish-scale pattern tiles and relieving arch under hood mould comprising alternate blocks of Hamstone and volcanic trap. Main front has single 2-light half dormer with half-hipped roof to first floor. End of wing has another 3-light mullion-and-upper-transom window to first floor with fish-scale tile infil of low arch of volcanic stone, and a narrow arch-headed stair window with gothic-style glazing pattern. Shoulder headed door with original monopitch hood on curving struts is set in inner wall of wing. 2-windows on outer wall of wing are narrower versions of main ground floor windows and front one given a square hood. Right end stack to first floor only and rests on series of corbels, and this end has plainer arch-headed windows. End of wing is half-hipped. Original clustered chimney shafts. Interior not inspected. Attractive house built at same time and in same style as adjacent Primary School (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SS7730207557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432821
- 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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