The Old Schoolroom
THE OLD SCHOOLROOM, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265443
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Schoolroom
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOLROOM, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265443
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Schoolroom
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOLROOM, CHURCH 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424972
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wakefield District Heritage in Wakefield District Heritage, Vol. 2, (1976), 55
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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