The Old Schoolroom

THE OLD SCHOOLROOM, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1265443
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1968
Statutory Address:
THE OLD SCHOOLROOM, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1265443
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1968
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD SCHOOLROOM, CHURCH LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD SCHOOLROOM, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
South Hiendley
National Grid Reference:
SE 38719 12616

Details

SOUTH HIENDLEY CHURCH LANE SE31SE (west side) Felkirk 4/62 The Old Schoolroom 25.3.1968 GV II

Schoolroom, now parish room. Probably C16 (but see History, below). Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Rectangular single-cell plan. Single storey; symmetrical 2-bay south front has moulded Tudor-arched doorway in the centre, board door with ornamental strap hinges; 2 buttresses flanking the doorway, and in each bay a recessed mullioned window of 5 Tudor-arched lights with hollow spandrels, and hoodmould. External chimney stack at left gable, embraced by low added outbuilding. Rear wall has 2 inserted 3-light casement windows. Interior: altered, roof concealed by ceiling. History: Prudence, wife of Richard Berrie and neice of Sir Richard Gargrave of Kinsley, endowed school in mid C17; mentioned in l660 as free school for manor of Havercroft. Reference: Kate Taylor Wakefield District Heritage, (Wakefield, 1976) Vol II p.55.

Listing NGR: SE3871912616

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Wakefield District Heritage in Wakefield District Heritage, Vol. 2, (1976), 55

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