The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254868
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254868
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
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 HOUSE, SCHOOL GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49345 12793
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW SCHOOL GARDENS 653-1/11/604 (West side) 10/01/53 The Old School House (Formerly Listed as: SCHOOL GARDENS Premises occupied by H Hardy Limited)
GV II
Formerly known as: British Railways (Western Region) Engineer's Office SCHOOL GARDENS. Offices, formerly part of school. C16, refronted c1818 in neo-Tudor style by E and JH Haycock, for the then headmaster, Dr Samuel Butler. Painted brick with plain tiled roof. 2 storeys, advanced gable and projecting wing to right. Doorway in angle with hoodmould over archway, and full-height canted bay to its left, with embattled parapet. Upper windows are round-arched mullions of 1 and 2 lights, with hoodmoulds. Projecting wing has single-light mullion to ground floor, 2-lights above. INTERIOR: traces of earlier building survive, including an early C17 staircase with bulbous splat balusters. (Colvin H: A Dictionary of British Architects: London: 1978-).
Listing NGR: SJ4934712798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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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