Worfield Church of England Primary School
WORFIELD CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268458
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Worfield Church of England Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- WORFIELD CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268458
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Worfield Church of England Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORFIELD CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL
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:
- WORFIELD CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Worfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7591495671
Details
SO 79 NE WORFIELD
Worfield Church of England
Primary School
823/16/10035
GV II
School and masters' houses. 1846; extended in 1874 and late C20. Rock-faced red sandstone. Plain tile roofs with bands of scalloped tiles, crested ridge-tiles and stone-coped gable-ends with corbelled kneelers. Lateral, axial and gable-end stone stacks with set-offs and red brick shafts. PLAN: T -shaped plan original school, comprising two schoolrooms at right-angles to each other with the school master's house at south end of the west cross-wing. In 1874 a cross-wing containing two schoolrooms was built, in the same style, at the east end, another school-master's house was added to the south side and an office was built on the porch at the north end of the west cross-wing. Late in the C20 a cloakroom and lavatory extension was built on the east side of the east cross-wing; this is not of special interest. Post-Medieval Gothic style. EXTERIOR: Single-storey schoolrooms. North front: main range with central canted stone bay window with 2-light mullion-transom window to left and right and buttresses in between, gabled cross-wing to right with diagonal corner buttresses and smaller cross-gabled office in front; to left 1874 wing with single-light transomed windows on inner side with buttresses between and 3-light mullion-transom window in gable end; porch in link between with arched doorway with hoodmould with headstops and plank double-doors. West side: four 2-light mullion-transom windows with buttresses in between and gabled cross-wing on right [master's house] with stone oriel with battlements and moulded corbel on large pilaster between two cross-mullion-transom windows; right-hand [south return] 3 mullion-transom windows, double-chamfered 4-centred arch doorway at centre with plank door and three gabled stone dormers; single-storeylink to another master's house on right, two bays with gable on right and stone-mullion windows. Casement windows with small panes. INTERIOR: Schoolrooms now ceiled, but originally open to roofs with arch-braced trusses with curved braces to the king-posts. Two-bay Gothic arcade between schoolrooms in centre range and west wing; partitions removed from east cross-wing; small simple Gothic chimneypieces. Plain stick-baluster staircase in south-east master's house.
Listing NGR: SO7591495671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461807
- 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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